In one of the significant verdicts that came as a setback to the INDI alliance, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea asking for 100 % matching of votes on electronic voting machines (EVMs) with the slips printed by the VVPAT machine.
Reacting to the apex court’s verdict, Rajya Sabha MP and top jurist Mahesh Jethmalani was unsparing in his criticism of Congress and called out their repeated failed attempts to undermine Bharat’s electoral process.
According to the media reports, Jethmalani said that petitioner Prashant Bhushan, Arvind Kejriwal, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi are all fellow travelers who are trying to undermine Bharat’s democratic image globally in the name of democracy.
This was a petition based on suspicion as the court pointed out. It’s not just justifiable suspicion. The problem is that now an attempt is being made to cast doubt on an inimitable verdict. It’s quite clear that PM Modi is in for a substantial majority. They are also trying to suggest that our democracy and electoral process is flawed.
It’s a signal to the world that the EVM is capable of being tampered and is being tampered. They’re bad losers. Bhushan is an eternal dissenter. He has enjoyed a lot of space when the UPA was in power. His shrinking space is seriously bothering him. He takes up these issues and because of his presence in SC, the court does entertain him. Lot of times his petitions are frivolous.
EC has been summoned again and again by the SC. This is not the first time the SC is entertaining such petition. In 2019, constitutional bench examined the whole process. These people are just laboring their case and trying to get an order that casts aspersions on our electoral system.
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