EVM brouhaha was stage managed, says CEC Sunil Arora
The 2019 general elections will be India's largest yet. The man in charge, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, talks to Rohit Parihar about the challenges, recent controversies over EVMs and pressure tactics on the EC.
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Q: The Opposition has raised concerns over the credibility of EVMs in elections...
A. The stringent technical safeguards incorporated in EVMs and the administrative/ security measures protocol followed by us during elections as well as the non-election period rule out any doubts on the integrity of the instruments. Successive court judgments since 2001 too have clearly
