Letter to BS: Singhvi, Sibal should have approached EC before Supreme Court

Interestingly, they have now petitioned the EC for the same 50 per cent VVPAT verification of EVMs, as the last resort

This is with reference to “VVPAT case: SC rejects plea of Opposition leaders” (May 8). The summary rejection of the VVPAT review plea of 21 Opposition parties, led by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Nadu (pictured), must have come as a bolt from the blue for all of them. The members also included the National Conferences’s Farooq Abdullah and Communist Party of India MP D Raja. 
 

It may be pertinent to observe that this group was over-ambitiously looking to persuade the apex court to increase the EVM's VVPAT slips count to 50 per cent in each assembly segment but