Will abolish EVMs if SP comes to power: Akhilesh

March 04, 2021 20:35

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Thursday that his party will win the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections "by a huge majority" after which 'Samajwadi people' will work towards abolishing electronic voting machines.

The SP chief cited last years US presidential elections, which happened on ballot paper, to claim that nobody trusts EVMs anymore.

"On EVMs, I still say that no one trusts them. Recently in the USA, the polls were conducted on ballot papers, and counting took several days. People trust only ballot papers, but this fight cannot be fought right now," he said at a press conference.

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