The Election Commission of India has rejected Trinamool Congress' demand for going back to the ballot papers discarding the Electronic Voting Machines.
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Friday said that “there is no question of going back to the ballot papers… we are not going back to the era of ballot papers,” as there was no prove of EVMs doing any mischief.
"The Supreme Court has more than once said that ballot papers are our past," he said.
The TMC and some other parties had been asking for the return of ballot papers, particularly after the general elections which saw the BJP coming back to power with a thumping majority. The TMC had suspected a foul play by the saffron outfit which it complained had programmed the EVMs so as to win the elections.