Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia criticised the Opposition for raising issues about Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), emphasising that those who refuse to acknowledge their own shortcomings cannot be helped.
"I will not apologise at all, not even a bit...If they are working under pressure from the PM and other ministers then what I have said is right," he said.
Former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD chief Lalu Yadav on Friday said that Electronic Voting Machines should be replaced with ballot papers in the elections.
Accusing the Election Commission of India of tampering with voter data in the recently concluded Maharashtra Assembly elections, state Congress chief Nana Patole on Friday wrote to the ECI and asked how voter turnout increased by 7.83 percentage points after the official polling time had end
Bharatiya Janata Party co-incharge in Himachal Pradesh, Sanjay Tandom hit out at the Congress party on Thursday, saying that the latter is losing elections due to poor management by their leadership and not because of EVMs.
On opposition claims regarding EVMs, BJP MP Dinesh Sharma said that opposition parties 'failure' is the result of losing elections rather than blaming EVMs.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sambit Patra on Wednesday lashed out at the Congress party for questioning Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and said that the public has sidelined the Congress party.
As tussle over the next Chief Minister of Maharashtra within the Mahayuti alliance continues, parties part of Maha Vikas Aghadi still fume over the loss and raising questions over the credibility of the EVMs.
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut spoke on the same issue and said that the EVMs were a fraud in the country and if there were no EVMS, BJP would not even have won 25 seats.