Cong leader Udit Raj questions SC, tags Gandhis

May 22, 2019 12:09

In a shocking statement, Congress leader Udit Raj accused the Supreme Court of rigging polls.

"Why don't the Supreme Court want all VVPAT slips to be counted, is it also included in the rigged? In the electoral process, when the government work has been slowed for almost three months, then what is the harm in if it counting takes two or three days," Raj tweeted while tagging Congress president Rahul Gandhi and general secreatary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court dismissed a public interest litigation seeking 100 per cent matching of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail slips with Electronic Voting Machines during the counting of votes on May 23 for Lok Sabha polls.

Earlier, a three-judge bench headed by the CJI on May 7 had dismissed a review plea filed by 21 opposition leaders, led by Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, seeking that random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs be increased to 50 per cent.

The opposition leaders had said that the present system of 2 per cent of random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs was inadequate and did not inspire confidence among the electorates.

Just last month, Raj had joined the Congress after the BJP denied him a ticket from northwest Delhi.

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