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JAMMU: Demanding re-elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Patron of Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP), Bhim Singh said, “There is not an iota of doubt that the Assembly polls were rigged and manipulated by preprogramming of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
He said that the Supreme Court of India in its judgment on October 8, 2013 has held that, “We are satisfied that the ‘paper trail’ is an indispensable requirement of free and fair elections. The confidence of the voters in the EVMs can be achieved only with the introduction of the ‘paper trail’. EVMs with Vote Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) system ensure the accuracy of the voting system. With intent to have fullest transparency in the system and to restore the confidence of the voters, it is necessary to set up EVMs with VVPAT system because vote is nothing but an act of expression which has immense importance in democratic system.”
This election in J and K was held in total violation of the judgment of the Supreme Court of India as the VVPAT has not been applied by Election Commission of India only to help the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to manipulate the general elections held in 2014, he mentioned.
He added that the present functioning of EVMs can easily be manipulated by replacing software as it has been done in Gujarat, Haryana and now in Jammu and Kashmir.
The victory of BJP candidates in thousands shows the clear manipulation by increasing the margin to discourage the candidates set up by the Panthers Party and other opposition parties, he asserted.
A total of 15,000 EVMs deployed in about 10,000 polling stations in J&K were purchased by Election Commission of India from public sector companies say, ‘Bharat Electronics Limited and Electronics Corporation of India Limited’ mostly from Hyderabad, he said adding that these machines were moved to Ahmedabad, Gujarat for reprocessing.
“That Prime Minister Modi’s only mission, power, by securing 44 + seats (out of total 87) could not have been realized unless the Panthers Party three sitting legislators were not routed out from the Assembly,” bhim said in resolution.
“Prime Minister Modi dashed his helicopters to every space he got in Udhampur or in Samba. It is the only Panthers Party which has proved to be the best leadership in opposition inside the legislature. The Panthers Party has proved exemplary in handling the administration as a part of the government. Its’ existence in the Assembly was a challenge to the communal politics of BJP and corrupt and authoritarian government of Omar Abdullah. Both wanted to wash out Panthers Party from the Assembly. PM Modi and CM Omar Abdullah succeeded a manipulating/ replacing EVMs in Udhampur and Samba to ensure that NPP legislators were out of the Assembly. Least realizing that NPP leadership shall be more