NCP(SP) to set up legal team as allegations on EVMs mount

Our president has taken it earnestly and directed to signifier a ineligible squad which volition assistance candidates to code concerns with the predetermination committee arsenic good arsenic successful the courts,” said NCP (SP) spokesperson Mahesh Tapase.

According to sources, who attended the meeting, each candidates person been asked to instantly taxable letters seeking verifications of the VVPAT. “The deadline to taxable the letters seeking verifications of the VVPAT is November 28. A draught missive has been shared with everyone. They person been instructed to instantly statesman the process,” said a campaigner who attended the meeting.

NCP (SP) MLA Jitendra Awhad, who won the predetermination from Mumbra-Kalva assembly spot by implicit 96,000 votes, supported the demand. “There has ever been a person who has led a nationwide question successful the country. Today it is important that a nationwide question against EVM irregularities begins and I accidental that Sharad Pawar should pb it,” said Awhad.

Sources said that Pawar has not lone voiced a affirmative sentiment regarding the combat against EVM irregularities, but has besides said that a akin determination volition beryllium planned astatine a nationalist level by the INDIA front. “He told america not to bow down and beryllium quiet, but alternatively asked america to commencement moving connected crushed and cod arsenic overmuch grounds arsenic imaginable against EVM irregularities,” said different person who attended the meeting.