‘They think elections are won by EVMs’: Fadnavis mocks Opposition signature campaign

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, in Bhandara: Why were EVMs not malfunctioning when Supriya Sule won? They formed govts in MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, why did EVMs not malfunction? For 10 years, they had govt from Panchayat to Parliament, but the EVMs didn’t malfunction then. https://t.co/iywycujHEX

— ANI (@ANI) August 3, 2019

The chief minister attacked the Opposition and asked why the EVMs were not malfunctioning when Supriya Sule won? “They (Congress) formed governments in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, why did the EVMs not malfunction?” he added, saying that the Congress had governments from Panchayat to Parliament for 10 years, but the EVMs didn’t malfunction then.

Mocking the Congress, Fadnavis remarked that the party was like a student sitting in an exam who is making excuses for not knowing anything. “This is like a student sitting in an exam, not knowing answers, not writing anything and flunking the exam. When the father asks him, he says, papa my pen stopped working, so I flunked.”

The chief minister had on Friday asked Opposition parties to introspect, instead of taking to the streets against the use of EVMs in elections. He described the Opposition as confused and vulnerable, adding that the real issue was not about EVMs and that the Opposition had taken the people for granted and failed to deliver. “They lost public support because people no longer trust them,” he added, saying that they should admit that they lost people’s mandate in the Lok Sabha polls.