On Friday as the Supreme Court thumbed-up Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) pattern of polling and junked pleas to revive paper ballot, PM Modi said the verdict came as a tight slap for opposition parties apprehensive of voting system.
The apex court announced the much anticipated verdict on EVM-VVPAT verification case, rejecting all pleas seeking complete verification of the votes recorded in the EVMs with VVPAT slips.
Addressing a public rally in Araria, Bihar, PM Modi said, ‘When the poor and honest voters have the strength of EVM, they are trying all they can to get rid of the EVM. Today, the Supreme Court has given a strong verdict saying that the old system of ballot paper voting paper voting will not come back’.
He added that RJD and Congress alliance in Bihar neither cares about the Constitution of India, nor about the democracy.
He further upped the ante and said that Congress and the INDI Alliance parties must apologise to the nation for acting as a wanderer during the crucial election season.
Passing the crucial verdict, the apex court noted that democracy is about striving to build harmony and blindly distrusting poll process can lead to unwarranted suspicion.
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