An AAP delegation, which visited the Election Commission, told the poll panel that it would be "worrying" if the event disallows tampering of the Electronic Voting Machines.
"We would like to strongly urge you to reconsider the terms of the EVM challenge. Please do not set any such rules and regulations and allow it to be an open hackathon where tampering of any kind can be demonstrated on the machine," AAP's national secretary Pankaj Gupta said in a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi.
Gupta also alleged that the tampering with the motherboards in the EVMs was the reason behind BJP's wins in the recent assembly and civic body polls.
In response to the allegations, the EC organised an EVM challenge on June 3 in which political parties can test machines deployed in recently held assembly polls.
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The challenge would be open only to national and state parties which contested assembly polls in five states -- Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab. They would not be allowed to change the motherboard of EVMs and take the machines home to prove at a later date that they can be tampered with.
"This is not an issue related to just one party, it is a question of safeguarding democracy in this country. We urge you to take the right decision in the long-term interests if this nation," Gupta said.