“I received call for Rs 2 cr to hack EVM”
Defeated Tarikere JDS candidate Shivashankarappa makes serious allegation
Tarikere, May 18: As degraded the democracy through its deceptive politics across the state, the BJP has misused the EVMs even in Tarikere constituency and won the election, defeated candidate TH Shivashankarappa made a serious allegation.
Speaking to reporters here on Friday, Shivashankarappa said that he had received a call from Venkatesh, one of the accused arrested on charges of hacking EVMs in Mysuru, and demanded Rs 2 crore to hack the EVMs to win the election. “But I have declined the offer very nicely. Now, I suspected that the BJP might have got the benefit of this. During the voting process, the EVMs were hacked using memory cards within 100 mts radius from the polling booths. Because of this, all votes polled to JDS and Congress in Udeva, Tanigebail, Shantaveri, Kodicamp, Tarikere, Kenchapura, Choudeshwari Colony, Attiganalu and other places were gone to BJP. The BJP cannot make use of such technique to be in power”, he alleged.
In this election, the BJP were able to get just 18,000 to 20,000 votes. It was expected that JDS would get 35000 votes, Congress 30,000 and independent candidate Gopi would get 25,000 votes. But the BJP has snatched JDS and Congress votes to win the constituency. The BJP has the capacity of winning just 70-80 seats in the state. But because of the misuse of EVMs, it has got 104 seats, he said.
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BJP using women's quota bill as front to pass Delimitation Bill that will break India: Mamata
Cooch Behar (WB) (PTI): Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday alleged the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre was using the proposed amendment to the women's quota law in Parliament as a front for the Delimitation Bill that would "break the country into pieces".
The TMC will fight this Central government's move at every step, she asserted at her party's poll rally here.
The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to tweak the women's quota law, along with the Delimitation Bill and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, to implement the proposed amended women's quota law, in the Union territories of Delhi, Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir, were introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
According to the Constitution amendment bill, Lok Sabha seats will be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.
Seats will also be increased in state and Union territory assemblies to accommodate 33 per cent reservation for women.
Opposing the Centre's move, Banerjee alleged that "the BJP brought the Delimitation Bill while keeping the women's reservation bill at the front".
"The BJP is trying to increase the number of seats in the Lok Sabha to nearly 850 through the Delimitation Bill. It will break the country into pieces," the TMC supremo said.
She also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not speaking the truth about the development of north Bengal at a BJP rally last week.
"The prime minister said nothing was done for the development of north Bengal. But we spent Rs 1.72 lakh crore on the development of the region," Banerjee said and asked Modi to cross-check data before making such remarks.
