Hummingbird News Desk
KOLKATA, 13 MAR: A day after BJP registered a comfortable victory in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee said on Friday that the results do not reflect the verdict of the people, as she demanded forensic test of the electronic voting machines (EVMs) used in the polls.
Speaking to the media in the Assembly, West Bengal chief minister Miss Banerjee said, “This is not the verdict of the people. BJP manipulated votes and won in four states (Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur).”
“There have been incidents of EVM loot in Uttar Pradesh. The District Magistrate of Banaras has been transferred. That is what I have come to know from the newspapers. Why were there no forensic test of the EVMs after that?
“Akhilesh (Yadav) has been forced to accept defeat. But this is not the verdict of the people.
This is the verdict of mechanical manipulation,” said Banerjee, who had campaigned in Uttar Pradesh in favour of Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav.
“There was loot and malpractices of EVM. Samajwadi Party’s Chief Akhilesh Yadav shouldn’t be disheartened and should seek forensic tests of the same EVM machines. Akhilesh Yadav’s vote percentage increased from 20% to 37% this time,” she added.
“This is not the end of everything. They have won some states and are behaving in such a way that they have won the Lok Sabha elections. This is not correct. The 2024 elections will not be that easy,” Miss Banerjee said.
Miss Banerjee further said that the Oppositions should unite and fight against the BJP in 2024.
“All political parties that want to fight BJP should work together. Congress is losing their credibility, we can’t depend on Congress,” she said adding that Trinamul Congress got 6% votes in Goa within three months of the party’s launch there. It is enough.
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