Sections
Current Poll
Do you like our new look?

Faulty EVMs led to defeat: Congress

By SANJIB DEB

Agartala, May 3: The Tripura Pradesh Congress has constituted an expert committee to go into the functioning of the electronic voting machine and as per its findings came to the conclusion that the electronic voting device has played spoilsport in diminishing the party’s prospects in the recently-held state Assembly elections.

It also accused chief electoral officer G.S.G. Iyengar of "manipulating" the entire process by bribing the company which supplied the EVMs. At a press conference, the Congress leaders said that the "findings" of the expert committee "revealed" that the EVMs can be manipulated.

The Congress leaders also drew the attention of the Election Commission about their findings and apprehensions.

 

 

---159 times read ---

Comments (0 posted):

Post your comment comment
Please enter the code you see in the image:
Author info
News Byte
 Subscribe in a reader
  • email Email to a friend
  • print Print version
  • Plain text Plain text
Tags
No tags for this article
Rate this article
0
Howrah News Service 2008 ©
This website is best viewed in Firefox. Internet Explorer users can get Firefox here