UP election results: Mayawati demands re-election, says EVMs have been tampered with
"Either the EVMs did not accept votes other than BJP, or the votes of other parties have gone to BJP in the EVMs," Mayawati added.
After a humiliating defeat in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, Bahujan Samaj party Supremo Mayawati demanded re-elections alleging that Electronic Voting machines were tampered with. Addressing the media in Lucknow, Mayawati said that the results were 'very surprising and unbelievable'.
"Most votes in Muslim majority constituencies have gone to the BJP, makes it evident that voting machines were manipulated," she said.
"Either the EVMs did not accept votes other than to the BJP, or the votes of other parties have gone to the BJP in the EVMs," Mayawati added.
Mayawati
said
that
she
had
written
to
the
Election
Commission
about
people
not
having
faith
in
the
electronic
voting
machines
and
that
the
counting
and
announcement
of
results
of
assembly
polls
of
both
Uttarakhand
and
Uttar
Pradesh
should
be
stopped
immediately.
"If
the
prime
minister
and
BJP
president
Amit
Shah
are
in
the
clear,
let
there
be
elections
with
ballot
papers.
The
truth
will
then
be
out,"
she
demanded.
I have written to Election Commission in this regard, people no more have faith in EVM machines: Mayawati,BSP #ElectionResults pic.twitter.com/3EkbRZHf8h
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) March 11, 2017
The BSP supremo who was reduced to a non-entity with the BJP's massive victory in Uttar Pradesh demanded that the EVMs be investigated with the help of foreign experts and that elections should be held once again using the old ballot paper method of polling.
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