Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray on Monday met the Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora regarding restoring faith in the election process in the country.
‘Today, MNS chief in Delhi Rajsaheb Thackeray met the Chief Election Commissioner along with MNS leaders and demanded that the decision of the future of the country should not be taken into account by the increasing number of complaints regarding electronic voting machines’, tweeted MNS official handle.
In the meeting, Raj Thackeray stated people’s faith in the election process should remain intact. He added that ballot papers should be used in upcoming Maharashtra State elections and for all future elections’.
In a letter submitted to the Poll Office, Raj Thackeray stated, ‘Individuals have communicated their dissatisfaction with the manner in which elections are being conducted in the last few years and raised questions regarding EVMs. We request you to get back to ballot papers and appeal to have assembly election in Maharashtra with ballot papers only.”
He writes, 'Individuals have communicated their dissatisfaction with the manner in which elections are being conducted in last few yrs&raised ques regarding EVMs. We request you to got back to ballot papers&appeal to have assembly election in Maharashtra with ballot papers only." https://t.co/oo29ggFC8k
— ANI (@ANI) July 8, 2019
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Opposition parties, including the Congress, had time and again raised questions and doubts over EVMs and claimed that they can be tamper, and can give advantage to incumbent BJP government.
It should be noted that MNS did not contest the national polls. However, Raj Thackeray interesting had held several rallies in Maharashtra in April ahead of the national polls. Thackeray in his rallies had attacked Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He in his rallies openly asked people not to vote for BJP in the national elections.
Poll Commission, in a run-up to the national polls, has sought the details of the expenditure of the MNS Rallies.
A few days ago, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi slammed the Congress and Opposition parties for raising doubts and questions over EVMs days after the BJP stormed back to power with a landslide margin in the recently held polls. Speaking to media, Union Minister said that the Grand Old party should rather introspect and deliberate upon the reasons of crushing defeat.
Calling the Congress and Opposition parties, an ‘EVM Vilaap Mandli’, BJP Leader said they were earlier pressing for VVPAT tallying and now looking for reasons after no mismatch was found’.
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