All fine with EVMs, says Ajit Pawar

A day after Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar statement not favoring the JPC on the Adani-Hindenburg issue jolted the opposition camp, the NCP Chief faced an embarrassment at home when his nephew and Maharashtra Opposition leader Ajit Pawar disagreed with the NCP Chief on the issue of EVMs being misused by the BJP.

NCP Chief Sharad Pawar had recently organised a meeting of top opposition parties and to get them to approach the Election Commission of India seeking a response on the 'concerns' of EVMs being susceptible to manipulation. NCP leader Ajit Pawar on Saturday hinted that complaints on EVMs were being made by sore losers.

" Whoever loses blames the EVM's, if the EVM's were an issue then how did the AAP come to power in Delhi and Punjab, how did KCR Rao win in Telangana, how did Jagan win in Andhra Pradesh and how did Congress come to power in Rajasthan or Mamata Bannerjee in West Bengal?" questioned Ajit Pawar.


Ajit added, "Some times people lose elections and they think they could not have lost it and then they start blaming EVMs, however, in reality, the election result is the actual mandate of the people."

Hours after Ajit Pawar's reaction on the EVM, the Chief Spokesperson of the NCP in Maharashtra Mahesh Tapase issued a release referring to the NCP President's Sharad Pawar and other opposition leaders reservations on EVMs.