The Election Commission sent a development project proposal with a cost of Tk 8,711 crore for purchasing two lakh electronic voting machines and their management, without conducting a feasibility study.
Himachal Pradesh Congress on Saturday expressed doubts about the long gap between the polling and result dates and said their party has no faith in Electronic Voting Machines (EVM).
The Election Commission (EC) can say that they made the right and commendable decision to stop the voting during Gaibandha-5 by-poll on October 12, 2022. But they need to find out why such a situation arose in the first place.
Md Alamgir said those who wrote against the use of EVMs had not voted using the EVMs, never seen it, and were unwilling to hear about it. He asked whether any of those voters who had used the EVMs had ever written any column in a newspaper. No wonder, the contagion effect of the government’s search for helpful columnists has reached the Election Commission.