EVM challenge to be held today after HC rejects stay plea
June 03, 2017  07:56
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The Election Commission's much-talked about EVM challenge will be held in the national capital on Saturday morning. The Uttarakhand high court in a significant development on Friday barred all political parties, individuals, media and even social media networks, like Facebook and Twitter, from criticising the use of EVMs in the recently conducted assembly polls.

A two-judge bench of Justices Sharad Kumar Sharma and Rajiv Sharma said that "all recognised national and state parties, other political parties, NGOs, individuals, in larger public interest, are restrained from criticising the use of EVMs in the recently concluded elections" and cannot approach print, electronic media, radio, Facebook or Twitter with criticism of any kind.

Meanwhile, the EC said its EVM challenge will start at 10 am on Saturday as scheduled. So far, NCP and CPI-M have nominated three representatives each for the challenge. The poll panel will provide 14 randomly selected EVMs which were used during the general and state elections in Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh to prove that EVMs cannot be tampered with, as alleged by various opposition parties.
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