Grappling to make sense of the MVA’s rout in the Maharashtra Assembly elections and its own disastrous performance in Haryana last month, the Congress Tuesday revived its demand for return to paper ballots once again raising questions on the sanctity of the electoral process itself.
Its ally in Maharashtra, NCP(SP), decided to set up a legal team for a judicial campaign on allegations against EVMs. Party president Sharad Pawar has directed party candidates to collect documentary evidence regarding objections.
Many of Congress’s INDIA bloc allies, however, signalled that, at least for now, they were not on the same page as the Congress on scrapping EVMs.