Pradeep Ramteke
Chief Editor
The winter session of the Legislative Assembly is going to be held in the deputy capital Nagpur from December 16. In connection with this session, the administration is busy preparing in Nagpur. Similarly, the eyes of the citizens of the state of Maharashtra are set on the expansion of the cabinet.
In the meantime, voters, citizens, farmers, deprived, victims, students, unemployed, elderly, women and young sisters of the state of Maharashtra are talking about the winter session everywhere, saying, “Yes and no, now it has happened to them. Due to this, the importance of the winter session of Nagpur and the other 2 sessions of Mumbai under the Maharashtra State Legislative Assembly is seen to be incredible in the eyes of the citizens.
In the recently held assembly elections in the state of Maharashtra, the slogans of democracy have been made through the distribution of huge amounts of money and the unilateral actions of the election system.
Under such discriminatory actions of the election system, the slogans of democracy made without any hindrance will be a source of shock to the voters, farmers, unemployed, citizens, youth, women and girls, students, in the coming 5 years of their tenure. Is that why they have removed the importance of the convention from their minds? This question seems very telling regarding the fundamental rights of all the citizens of the state of Maharashtra.
Since the recently concluded assembly elections in Maharashtra have been unbelievable for the voters, the ruling party MLAs have repeatedly denied the fact that the voters do not believe in the unprecedented majority won by the Mahayuti. At the same time, the winning MLAs of the Mahayuti will also consistently deny the mess in the EVM machines.
But, the EVM machine is a scientific electronic device, so have the technology leaders who make the EVM machines taken care that there should not be a difference of even a single vote in this EVM machine? Who will make disclosures about this?
And although the ruling party MLAs are saying with great speed that the EVM machines cannot make a difference in votes, the votes cast in more or less numbers in many assembly constituencies, “On what basis do the Returning Officer, the State Election Commissioner, and the Chief Election Commissioner of the country, Rajiv Kumar, assume that the quality of the EVM machines is dishonest or honest? Only they know whether it is a ghost of unreality or reality in their heads.
But it is clear that the Election Department has no right to say that if one vote is more or less than the voting conducted in any EVM machine, it is a technical malfunction.
Even if one vote is “more or less” than the counting of votes, the election of the said constituency should be cancelled. At the same time, as another option, all the ballot papers in the VVPAT should be counted, which is called a sign of the maturity of democracy.
In 2013, the Supreme Court of the country and the Chief Election Commissioner should understand that, following the petition of the then BJP Rajya Sabha MP and BJP leader And. Subramanian Swamy, while giving a decision regarding EVM machines, said that “Transparent, fair, credible, undoubtedly, general elections cannot be held in an open atmosphere through EVM machines.
Along with this, many BJP leaders including BJP leaders and the then Home Minister of the country Lal Krishna Advani, Nitin Gadkari, had “scepticism about EVM machines and created a stir in the country for holding general elections through ballot papers.” However, since the Congress was ready to hand over power to the BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, “the BJP avoided the public movement against EVM machines.” The citizens of the country should take this fact seriously, as Vaman Meshram, the National President of Bharat Mukti Morcha and BAMSEF, repeatedly brings up this fact through meetings. Similarly, Vaman Meshram, the National President of Bharat Mukti Morcha, filed a petition in the Supreme Court demanding the installation of VVPATs in EVM machines in accordance with the Supreme Court’s decision of 2013 regarding EVM machines. Following his petition, the Supreme Court decided to install VVPATs in 2017 to collect votes through ballot papers and also ruled to count 50 percent of the votes in VVPATs.
However, in 2019, when the Lok Sabha elections were just around the corner, Congress national leader MP Manu Singhvi filed a petition in the Supreme Court demanding that only 5 percent of the votes in the VVPAT be counted.
Following his petition, a month before the Lok Sabha elections, i.e. in March 2019, the Supreme Court gave an unconstitutional decision accepting his demand and killed democracy.
This means that there is collusion between the BJP and the Congress party and other parties in the matter of EVM machines. This is why they are not seen coming forward to hold public protests against EVM machines across the country.
The picture that EVM machines are a kind of Manusmriti that denies the rights of all the citizens of this country has emerged through various elections.
While the general elections conducted through EVM machines are denying the rights of the citizens of this country and making the representatives of the people mute witnesses of the party’s anti-people policies, “What is the problem in rejecting the elections conducted through EVM machines? Isn’t it good to once and for all come to the fore whether the role behind the silence of all the party leaders in the country on this issue is enslaving the citizens of India?”
