Delhi's Aam Aadmi Party has blamed the decimation in the Delhi Municipal Elections on its pet peeve -- the EVM machine.

With the BJP leagues ahead at 181 seats, Cong: 38 and AAP: 40, Delhi's Rural Development minister Gopal Rai said, "Yeh Modi lehar nahi hai, EVM lehar hai."

To bring you up to speed, on April 23, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal raised concerns about the reliability of EVMs, alleging that many machines were malfunctioning.

Just two days prior to the MCD elections on April 21, the Delhi High Court rejected the plea seeking direction to state election commission and the Election Commission of India (ECI) to use only second generation of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in the civic polls.

Earlier on April 18, the Delhi High Court had refused to give immediate relief to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in its plea seeking the same. The court questioned the AAP as to why it was approaching it at "11th" hour for getting MCD polls conducted via VVPAT machine EVMs.

The plea was filed by the AAP on the very same day itself.

A day before, the Delhi Chief Minister met the State Election Commissioner on the issue of the EVMs and put forward his demand. However, the SEC rejected the proposal, saying there was no provision to postpone the elections.

Earlier on March 24, Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal had turned down Kejriwal's request to amend rules and conduct the civic polls using ballot papers.

The Delhi Congress had also written to Kejriwal, seeking use of ballot papers instead of EVMs in the civic polls.