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Terming the Lok Sabha poll results as unprecedented, Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) President Mayawati again raised doubts over EVMs on Thursday, 23 May and indicated that her alliance with the SP and the RLD will continue.
"We had not contemplated that the alliance will fare so badly. People are not able to digest the poll results. It is against their sentiment and aspirations," she said.
She added that after the results, whatever confidence people had in EVMs will disappear.
She alleged that though the opposition alliance had won some seats in the state, it was done purposely as part of a planning to show that there was nothing wrong with EVMs.
"There are some seats that we have won but they have been left as part of a planning to show that nothing wrong has been done with the EVMs. But at most of the places, there had been tampering of EVMs," Mayawati said.
Asking why the demand of the opposition parties as regards EVMs was not being accepted in the wider interest of democracy, Mayawati said, "This goes on to bolster the doubt that something is wrong in the poll process. The Supreme Court needs to look at (the option of conducting) elections through ballot papers seriously."
She claimed that even though people were not satisfied with EVMs, they had to use the machines for exercising their franchise.
The BSP president also called for including the right to vote under the fundamental rights as enshrined in the Constitution.
She said the country was sadly watching how people in high positions bowed before those in power.
She thanked the alliance partners, especially SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and RLD president Ajit Singh, for working honestly to ensure the victory of the coalition candidates.
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