Parties blaming EVMs have come to power many times through same EVMs
False technical issues are being raked up to insult people’s mandate – Bidhuri
New Delhi, May 22, 2019: Union Minister and “Lok Abhiyan” President Vijay Goel and MP Ramesh Bidhuri today held a prayer meeting with hundreds of supporters at Rajghat and said that almost every party blaming EVMs today has come to the power once or multiple times using the same EVMs, but now when they are set to face the defeat in the Lok Sabha Elections, they have begun blaming the EVMs for their loss. Besides Goel, Shyam Jaju, Hansraj Hans, MLA Om Prakash Sharma, Jagdish Pradhan, Devendra Shehrawat, Anil Vajpayee, Roshan Kansal, former MP Anita Arya, Councilors Jai Prakash, Bhupendra Gupta, Himanshi Pandey and other prominent leaders were present at the venue.
Goel said that today's prayer meeting was organized by Lok Abhiyan, RWAs and NGOs; it is a people’s protest to show how those who consider themselves the disciples of Gandhi are today mocking democracy by wrongly blaming the EVMs.
Union Minister Goel made all take an oath that any attack on the democracy of India would not be tolerated and such destructive forces would be fought tooth and nail.
Goel said:
1.Congress had been in the power in the country for several decades, but it never found any fault with the EVMs then. Now when another party else has come to power, the EVMs have suddenly become an eyesore.
2.When the Congress won the elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan, the EVMs were good. In 2015 when Kejriwal won the elections in Delhi, the EVMs were good. Why were they good then?
3.EVMs are being used as a pretext to hide the imminent electoral defeat and to shun the public humiliation.
4.The people who say what is wrong in matching the election results with VVPAT would again ask tomorrow that what is wrong in doubling the security on the polling booth. They may also ask why not get four security vans along to secure the EVMs in transit or why not build a strong room whose has multiple walls. There is no answer to such questions.
5.Every day some or another technical issue is being raked up so that elections lose their credibility. They are trying to invalidate the votes of 90 crore people.
6.UP politicians were found to be saying that the EVMs which have not been deployed in the elections should also get the same security which the EVMs in use receive. They don’t know that even those machines are secured.
7.The opposition parties were fighting against each other till now. Now they are fighting unitedly on facing their imminent defeat
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Goel said that they have come to pray at Gandhi’s memorial that may God provide sanity to the opposition parties so that they do not mock the democracy and let the country prosper.