EVMs in India are 'black box', nobody allowed to scrutinize them: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi, (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said EVMs in India are a "black box" which nobody is allowed to scrutinise, and asserted that "serious concerns" are being raised about transparency in India's electoral process.
"Democracy ends up becoming a sham and prone to fraud when institutions lack accountability," Gandhi said and tagged a media report which claimed that a relative of Shiv Sena's candidate, who won the polls from Mumbai's north west by 48 votes, had a phone that unlocks an EVM.
The former Congress president also tagged the post on X by Elon Musk in which he talked about eliminating EVMs.
"We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high," Musk had said in his post.
The opposition parties have been raising concerns over EVMs for some time now and had demanded a 100 per cent count of the VVPAT slips which was not allowed.
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Captain Brijesh Chowta takes oath as Lok Sabha MP from Dakshina Kannada
New Delhi: Captain Brijesh Chowta, the newly elected Member of Parliament from Dakshina Kannada, took his oath today in the Lok Sabha.
Chowta had garnered 7,64,132 (53.97%) votes, defeating his nearest rival from the Congress, Padmaraj R Poojary, by a margin of 1,49,208 votes. Poojary got 6,14,924 votes (43.43%).
The BJP has not lost a single Lok Sabha election in Dakshina Kannada for the past 33 years. It has won 9 consecutive elections from this constituency (including erstwhile Mangalore constituency).
“ನಾನು ಕ್ಯಾಪ್ಟನ್ ಬ್ರಿಜೇಶ್ ಚೌಟ ಲೋಕಸಭೆಯ ಸದಸ್ಯನಾಗಿ ಚುನಾಯಿತನಾದವನಾಗಿ ಕಾನೂನಿನ ಮೂಲಕ ಸ್ಥಾಪಿತವಾದ ಭಾರತದ ಸಂವಿಧಾನದ ವಿಷಯದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಜವಾದ ಶ್ರದ್ದೆ ಮತ್ತು ನಿಷ್ಠೆಯನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಿರುತ್ತೇನೆಂದೂ, ಭಾರತದ ಸಾರ್ವಭೌಮತ್ವವನ್ನು ಮತ್ತು ಅಖಂಡತೆಯನ್ನು ಎತ್ತಿಹಿಡಿಯುತ್ತೇನೆಂದೂ ಮತ್ತು ನಾನು ಈಗ ವಹಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಿರುವ ಕರ್ತವ್ಯವನ್ನು… pic.twitter.com/cpKuuuvOvs
— Captain Brijesh Chowta ಕ್ಯಾಪ್ಟನ್ ಬ್ರಿಜೇಶ್ ಚೌಟ (@CaptBrijesh) June 24, 2024
