Samajwadi Party says Lok Sabha polls should be held through ballot paper
Akhilesh Yadav
The party's national executive also authorises party chief Akhilesh Yadav to decide on the alliance, seat sharing for LS polls,
Lok Sabha elections should be held through ballot paper and not Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), demanded Samajwadi Party (SP) national executive at its meeting in Lucknow.
Senior SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav said, "The main decision taken in the national executive is that party president Akhilesh Yadav has been authorised to take a decision on alliance and seat sharing for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls."
"The executive is of the view that elections should be held through ballot papers and not through EVMs," he said.
Recently, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had also demanded the use of ballot papers instead of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2019.
It alleged that machines without Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) can be rigged to benefit the Modi-led BJP.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) should give up its insistence on using EVMs because only 22 per cent of the over 16 lakh VVPAT machines ordered by the poll panel have been received so far, senior party leader and MP Sanjay Singh had said quoting a news report.