Opening one other friction level with an necessary ally, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has dismissed the Congress celebration’s vehement objections to Digital Voting Machines (EVMs) and echoed the BJP’s defence of the know-how. He asserted that if there’s a downside with EVMs, political events ought to keep consistency of their stance.
“While you get 100 plus members of Parliament utilizing the identical EVMs and also you rejoice that as kind of a victory to your celebration, you’ll be able to’t then just a few months later flip round and say… we do not like these EVMs as a result of now the election outcomes aren’t going the way in which we wish them to,” Abdullah stated, PTI reported.
When requested that he sounded suspiciously like a BJP spokesman, Abdullah responded, “No, it is simply that… what’s proper is true.”
He said that he speaks based mostly on ideas, not partisan loyalty and used his help for infrastructure tasks just like the Central Vista for instance of his impartial considering.
“Opposite to what everyone else believes, I feel that what’s occurring with this Central Vista undertaking in Delhi is a rattling good factor. I imagine developing a brand new Parliament constructing was a wonderful concept. We would have liked a brand new Parliament constructing. The previous one had outlived its utility,” he stated.
When requested whether or not he believed the opposition, notably the Congress, was barking up the improper tree by specializing in EVMs, Abdullah responded, “When you’ve got points with the EVMs, you must stay constant in your stance on them.”
The grand previous celebration expressed doubts in regards to the EVM’s infallibility after dropping in Haryana and Maharashtra Meeting polls,
Abdullah’s feedback mirror his Nationwide Convention celebration’s rising dissatisfaction with the Congress with which it was allied in the course of the September Meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
He emphasised that he by no means questioned the reliability of the EVMs and electoral machines stay the identical whatever the election final result.
(With PTI Inputs)
