People who raise questions on EVMs should show how they can be hacked: TMC trashes Congress claims
People who raise questions on EVMs should show how they can be hacked: TMC trashes Congress claims

Kolkata/New Delhi/IBNS: After National Conference leader Omar Abdullah refuted the Congress-led charge against Electronic Voting Machines (EVM), another key Opposition party, the Trinamool Congress, has now dismissed the questions over the same.
Trinamool Congress MP and general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has said those who raise doubts about EVMs must explain with a demo how they can be hacked.
"If still someone feels that EVMs can be hacked, then they should meet the Election Commission and show how EVMs can be hacked... Nothing can be done by just making random statements...," Abhishek said, who is considered the Number 2 in Trinamool after party chief Mamata Banerjee.
The Congress and several other Opposition parties raised questions about EVMs following the results of the Haryana and Maharashtra polls.
However, some Congress allies have trashed the offensive against EVMs.
"When you get a hundred plus members of Parliament using the same EVMs, and you celebrate that as sort of a victory for your party, you can't then a few months later turn around and say... we don't like these EVMs because now the election results aren't going the way we would like them to," Abdullah said.
Citing his example of losing in the Lok Sabha election and scoring a big win in the Assembly polls months later, he said, "One day voters choose you, the next day they don't. I never blamed the machines."
NEH Report
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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