‘Random statements’: TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee dismisses Congress’s EVM tampering claim | India News – Times of India

Abhishek Banerjee. (Photo/Agencies)

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee targeted the Congress party on Monday and said if anyone has any evidence of electronic voting machine (EVM) tampering, they should show it to the election commission.
“People who raise questions on EVM, if they have anything then they should go and show a demo to the Election Commission,” the TMC MP said.
His comments came a day after Jammu & Kashmir chief minister and INDIA bloc member Omar Abdullah also dismissed Congress’s objections to EVM, saying, you can’t accept election results when you win, and blame EVMs when you lose. “When you get a hundred plus members of Parliament using the same EVMs, and you celebrate that as sort of a victory for your party, you can’t then a few months later turn around and say we don’t like these EVMs because now the election results aren’t going the way we would like them to,” Abdullah told news agency PTI in an interview.
Echoing Abdullah’s statements, Abhishek Banerjee said, “If work is done properly at the time of EVM randomisation and the people who work on the booth check during mock polls and counting, then I don’t think there is any substance in this allegation.”
He added, “If still someone feels that EVMs can be hacked, then they should meet the Election Commission and show how EVMs can be hacked. Nothing can be done by just making random statements.”