After the Haryana Assembly elections, the Congress questioned the reliability of the EVMs and claimed that different results were obtained due to different charge levels of the EVM batteries. In his response, Meghwal also informed that the Commission has implemented rigorous and safe administrative procedures with strict safety protocols during maintenance and movement of machines. These protocols include 24-hour CCTV surveillance, armed security, log books and use of GPS-enabled vehicles.
After the Haryana Assembly elections, the EVM issue has become hot again. Many leaders, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, have advocated holding elections through ballot papers. Even in the assembly elections held in Maharashtra, the opposition parties have viewed the EVMs with suspicion. Meanwhile, the government has provided important information related to the EVM in Lok Sabha.
The government said: The Judiciary has repeatedly clarified the situation.
According to the PTI report, the government told the Lok Sabha on Friday that around 42 petitions have been filed before the Supreme Court and different High Courts raising issues on the EVMs and the High Judiciary has repeatedly said that the EVMs are authentic, reliable and tamper-proof. It is devoid of.
Replying to a question on security measures to prevent tampering and hacking of EVMs, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said that according to the Election Commission, the EVM is an independent machine. Which does not have radio frequency communication capacity. Therefore, it cannot communicate wirelessly, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
The minister further said that the EVM machines are electronically secured to prevent any tampering or tampering. It includes many technical security features. Also included is a one-time programmable chip unauthorized access detection module.
The EVM issue has become more acute since the Haryana elections.
In fact, after the Haryana Assembly elections, the Congress raised doubts over the reliability of EVMs and claimed that different charge levels in EVM batteries give different results. The Election Commission then rejected the complaint saying that the Congress was raising smoke of general suspicion election after election.
Priyanka Gandhi said: We should go back to the polls
On Friday, Congress Party national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi also raised the issue of EVM. He said we will have to resort to ballot papers instead of the EVM. There can be no middle ground, neither EVM nor voting. The Congress has decided that it will attack the Election Commission along the lines of SEBI because it believes that there is no transparency in the entire electoral process.
