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Former UP CMs Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadava accuse BJP of rigging UP civic polls
by Guest Sat Dec 02, 2017 7:32 am
LUCKNOW: A day after the BJP's massive victory in Uttar Pradesh civic body polls, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav have alleged that the ruling party's win was a result of "rigged" electronic voting machines or EVMs and dared the BJP to conduct voting on ballot papers.
"If the BJP is honest and believes in democracy then discard EVMs and conduct voting on ballot papers. General Elections are due in 2019, if the BJP believes people are with them, they must implement it. I can guarantee if ballot papers are used, BJP won't come to power," Ms Mayawati said this morning in Lucknow.
The BSP was referring to analysis of the BJP's win, where some have suggested that while the BJP has performed very well in the big towns where EVMs were used for voting, it has not been very successful in small towns of UP where paper ballots were used - Independents have again done very well, as they did in the previous 2012 urban body elections.
Echoing Mayawati's remarks, former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said, "The BJP says of the total 16 mayoral elections held in UP, 14 were won by BJP, two by BSP and the Congress-SP disappeared. We say that BJP's winning percentage is about 46 per cent wherever polls were conducted via EVMs and 15 per cent when it was done via ballot papers." The Samajwadi Party has failed to win a single seat in the mayoral elections this year and it did not do well in other local body polls either.
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/discard-rigged-evms-then-fight-polls-opposition-slams-bjp-over-up-win-1782743?pfrom=home-lateststories
"If the BJP is honest and believes in democracy then discard EVMs and conduct voting on ballot papers. General Elections are due in 2019, if the BJP believes people are with them, they must implement it. I can guarantee if ballot papers are used, BJP won't come to power," Ms Mayawati said this morning in Lucknow.
The BSP was referring to analysis of the BJP's win, where some have suggested that while the BJP has performed very well in the big towns where EVMs were used for voting, it has not been very successful in small towns of UP where paper ballots were used - Independents have again done very well, as they did in the previous 2012 urban body elections.
Echoing Mayawati's remarks, former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said, "The BJP says of the total 16 mayoral elections held in UP, 14 were won by BJP, two by BSP and the Congress-SP disappeared. We say that BJP's winning percentage is about 46 per cent wherever polls were conducted via EVMs and 15 per cent when it was done via ballot papers." The Samajwadi Party has failed to win a single seat in the mayoral elections this year and it did not do well in other local body polls either.
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/discard-rigged-evms-then-fight-polls-opposition-slams-bjp-over-up-win-1782743?pfrom=home-lateststories
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