Amid the ongoing controversy over the efficacy of EVMs, Union minister Uma Bharti Tuesday said the Election Commission (EC) should let people secretly prove if the machines can be tampered with or not.
The former Madhya Pradesh chief minister, who herself once opposed the EVMs, added that many countries in the world, including the US, were not using Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) despite being much advanced technologically and scientifically as compared to India.
The statement comes in the wake of the Congress raising doubts over the security of EVMs which contain the votes cast in the November 28 election for the 230 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh.
"Once the EC had invited all political parties to prove if EVMs can be tampered with. But it did this openly and nobody came forward."
Disclaimer: No Business Standard Journalist was involved in creation of this content