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Five years ago, aft the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) reduced his enactment to 23 seats successful the 175-member Andhra Pradesh Assembly, TDP main N Chandrababu Naidu had voiced concerns implicit the functioning of EVMs connected societal media. (File Photo)
As the statement implicit the veracity of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) rages connected pursuing the Mahayuti’s emphatic triumph successful Maharashtra, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which aft its 2019 rout successful Andhra Pradesh had claimed that EVMs are “not tamper proof”, has taken a U-turn connected the contented and present claims “it has been proven without uncertainty that the machines are tamper proof”.
“The Election Commission (EC) has successfully proved that the EVMs cannot beryllium tampered with and our enactment is successful enactment of voting done EVMs,” TDP nationalist spokesperson Jyothsna Tirunagari told The Indian Express, a time aft the Supreme Court rejected a plea that sought a displacement backmost to voting done ballot papers.
Five years ago, aft the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) reduced his enactment to 23 seats successful the 175-member Andhra Pradesh Assembly, TDP main N Chandrababu Naidu had voiced concerns implicit the functioning of EVMs connected societal media. “EVMs airs a large hazard successful a ideology arsenic they are susceptible to manipulation. No developed oregon technology-driven state would usage EVMs for voting,” helium had said successful a station connected X (then Twitter).
Naidu had besides accused the EC of faltering during the 2019 polls. “It was an infringement of citizens’ voting rights successful the caller Andhra Pradesh polls owed to a colossal nonaccomplishment of the predetermination machinery,” helium had said.
Another TDP leader, requesting anonymity, said respective Opposition parties, including the Congress, had raised doubts implicit EVMs successful 2019. “The TDP was successful confederation with the Congress then. We mislaid the polls and were definite that the YSRCP had indulged successful malpractices to triumph the elections and hence questioned the EVMs,” the person said and argued that the party’s basal connected the contented had “not changed but lone evolved with time”.
The TDP, which was past not a portion of the NDA, was besides 1 among the 21 Opposition parties which had approached the apex tribunal successful March 2019 with a request that 50% Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips beryllium counted with the votes recorded successful the EVMs.
The Opposition parties – the Congress, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), NCP (then undivided), Samajwadi Party (SP) and Left parties – on with the TDP, successful their plea had urged the apical tribunal to guarantee EVMs are tamper impervious and claimed the lone mode to guarantee it was by manually counting VVPAT slips. The Supreme Court dismissed the petition successful May 2019.
On the different hand, a TDP insider drew parallels with his party’s stance and BJP seasoned L K Advani, who had questioned EVMs pursuing the Congress triumph successful the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. “While helium (Advani) had earlier questioned EVMs, the BJP present supports their use. Similarly, the TDP raised the contented successful the past and present supports it,” the root said.
The elder TDP enactment remained unavailable for remark portion Andhra IT Minister, Nara Loksh declined to remark connected the issue.
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