Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attacked the Opposition bloc INDIA after the Supreme Court rejected requests for 100 per cent VVPAT verification of votes punched into electronic voting machines (EVMs).
While the Madhya Pradesh Congress has pointed fingers at voting machines for their big loss, the BJP too had expressed doubts about them under UPA. In 2009, L K Advani demanded a return to paper ballots.
Over the last few years, there is ample material in public domain questioning the sanctity of India’s electoral process mainly due to the severe flaws in EVM voting and VVPAT counting. The EC has ignored most.