"During failure, political leaders start blaming EVMs..," says BJP MP Dinesh Sharma

New Delhi: On opposition claims regarding EVMs, BJP MP Dinesh Sharma said that opposition parties 'failure' is the result of losing elections rather than blaming EVMs.
He also mentioned that the opposition leaders have lost their mandate, but they are not willing to analyse themselves and understand why people are upset with them.
"During failure, political leaders start blaming EVMs. The opposition should learn from the statement of the Supreme Court. The opposition leaders lost their mandate, but they won't analyse themselves. Why are people upset with them?" he said.
Earlier on Tuesday, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge demanded the replacement of electronic voting machines (EVMs) with ballot papers, alleging that votes from "SC, ST, OBC, and poor communities are being wasted."
"Votes of people from SC, ST, OBC, and poor communities are being wasted. Set aside EVMs. We do not want EVMs; we want voting on ballot paper... Let them keep the machine at their home, at the home of PM Modi or Amit Shah... Then we would know where you (BJP-NDA) stand," Mallikarjun Kharge said while speaking at the Constitution Day program at Talkatora Stadium here.
The Congress Chief's scathing remarks comes on the heels of his party's crushing defeat in the Maharashtra Assembly election, where the Mahayuti alliance swept to power in a landslide victory with the BJP emerging as the biggest winner with 132 seats out of 280 member Maharashtra assembly, while its allies--the Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde and the NCP led by Ajit Pawar--won 57 and 41 seats, respectively.
Several Congress leaders, Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, Digvijaya Singh, G Parameshwara, and Chamala Kiran Kumar, have raised concerns over the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) victory in the recent Maharashtra assembly election and alleged that it won the election by manipulating targeted polling booths through electronic voting machines (EVMS).
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) petition on Tuesday seeking the reintroduction of the physical paper ballot voting system in elections in India.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and PB Varale dismissed the plea filed by evangelist KA Paul seeking physical ballot voting in India.
During the hearing, the petitioner said that even leaders like Chandrababu Naidu and YS Jagan Mohan Reddy had questioned Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) tampering. To this, the bench said what happens is, if you win the elections, EVMs are not tampered with.