{"id":19033,"date":"2024-11-26T17:21:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19033"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:21:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:21:47","slug":"kharge-blames-evm-raises-return-to-paper-ballot-demand-after-congresss-rout-in-maharashtra-assembly-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19033","title":{"rendered":"Kharge blames EVM, raises \u2018return to paper ballot\u2019 demand after Congress&#039;s rout in Maharashtra Assembly election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"\">\n<p>After the party\u2019s poor show in the recently concluded Maharashtra Assembly polls, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday stressed the nation should revert to the old paper ballot system for elections. Several Congress had blamed the EVMs for the party\u2019s loss in the Maharashtra election though the Congress-JMM alliance won in Jharkhand Assembly polls.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing party workers during the Constitution Day celebrations at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi, Kharge said they don\u2019t need electronic voting machines and said a major nationwide campaign must be conducted to return to paper ballots for voting. \u201cWe don&#8217;t want EVMs, we want ballot paper,&#8221; he said. Kharge added a campaign on the scale of the Bharat Jodo Yatra must be conducted to return to ballot paper system of polling.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress president said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is afraid of conducting \u2018caste census\u2019 as everyone will start demanding their share.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance performed poorly in the Maharashtra election, with the alliance winning less than 100 seats in the recently concluded polls. The Congress, which contested in 101 seats managed to win only 16. Several Congress leaders blamed the functioning of electronic voting machines for the party\u2019s poor performance.<\/p>\n<p>Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara on Monday charged EVM manipulation led to Maha Vikas Aghadi\u2019s loss in the polls.\u00a0 &#8220;We analysed the Maharashtra poll outcome deeply. We felt that in many places EVMs were manipulated,&#8221; PTI reported quoting the Karnataka minister. \u201cThe manipulations are done selectively so that no one can question it,\u201d Parameshwara charged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/politics.einnews.com\/article\/763923097\/5ef_Zbor-iPwLaP6?ref=rss&amp;ecode=kmfm9fDbRbj4OPCJ\">politics.einnews.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the party\u2019s poor show in the recently concluded Maharashtra Assembly polls, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday stressed the nation should revert to the old paper ballot system for elections. Several Congress had blamed the EVMs for the party\u2019s loss in the Maharashtra election though the Congress-JMM alliance won in Jharkhand Assembly polls. Addressing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}