EVM tampering claims without proof not appropriate, says Sule

The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) appears to have broken ranks with the Opposition on the issue of the alleged manipulation of electronic voting machines (EVMs) during the recently concluded assembly elections.

- Faisal Malik

MUMBAI: The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) appears to have broken ranks with the Opposition on the issue of the alleged manipulation of electronic voting machines (EVMs) during the recently concluded assembly elections.

The party's working president Supriya Sule stated on Wednesday that she had won four elections in Baramati through EVM counting and did not find it appropriate to make allegations about tampering without concrete proof.

Sule also said that she was the one who asked Yugendra Pawar, the NCP (SP) Baramati candidate, to withdraw his application asking to verify the burnt memory in the microcontroller of the EVMs.

The MP's statement is contradictory to the stand taken by the Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT). The two parties have blamed EVM manipulation for their crushing defeat in the assembly elections.