EVM ‘tampering’ disrupts House

Prakash Javedkar said if anybody had a problem with EVMs, they could go to the Election Commission , not take up in Parliament.

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Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar. (File Photo)

Congress, SP and BSP members forced a brief adjournment of Rajya Sabha proceedings Wednesday protesting over alleged tampering of EVMs in UP, even as the government told Lok Sabha it was collecting information about this and other related issues.

In Rajya Sabha, Congress and SP members gave four notices seeking suspension of business to take up the issue. HRD Minister Prakash Javedkar said if anybody had a problem with EVMs, they could go to the Election Commission , not take up in Parliament.

Comments by Mayawati (BSP) against the BJP, later expunged, led to Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi saying she had “insulted people of the country and democracy”.

In Lok Sabha, MoS (Law) P P Chaudhary said in a written reply that information on whether any review has been conducted regarding EVM tampering “is being collected and will be laid on the table of the House”.

Shubhajit Roy

Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More

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