The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday hit out at Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar for questioning the efficacy of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and the election process in general. Mr. Pawar had expressed his doubts in a recent interview to a Marathi TV channel. “If 200 opposition [Congress, NCP and their allies] MPs are elected, then there is no EVM tampering… But if the BJP is re-elected, then Mr. Pawar thinks that EVMs have been manipulated. Stating that the BJP had no problem in doing away with EVMs, Mr. Patil said, “Who introduced the EVMs? Meanwhile, other State unit BJP leaders including Vinod Tawde and Girish Mahajan joined forces in targeting Mr. Pawar.

Source: The Hindu May 01, 2019 19:41 UTC