AAP urges EC to verify 20% of VVPAT slips in each constituency

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today urged the Election Commission (EC) to verify at least 20 per cent of the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips in every constituency to remove any doubts about the results declared by the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).

An AAP delegation led by its chief spokesperson and MLA, Sourabh Bhradwaj, met the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) O P Rawat here and submitted a memorandum on the issue.

"We demanded from the EC is that any 20 per cent VVPAT slips in every constituency should be verified with the EVM results to remove any doubts about its functioning," Bharadwaj told reporters after the meeting with the CEC.

"Presently, slips of only a single VVPAT are counted and how that particular EVM is selected is also not clear," he said.

Bharadwaj added that it was also not clear what action is proposed to be taken in case there is an error in VVPAT's counting and the EC should clarify it.

AAP's state unit coordinator Alok Agrawal said, "We also demanded that the EC should put a ban on the publication and telecast of advertisements of political parties 48 hours prior to polling."