Mamata to launch campaign against EVMs, call for bringing back ballot paper

Plans to meet all major opposition parties with this agenda; claims Election Commission verified only 2% of EVMs, no guarantee that remaining 98% were not tampered with

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that she would launch a campaign to bring back the practice of voting via ballot papers instead of EVMs, and will be meeting all major opposition parties in the country with this agenda.

Raising questions over the authenticity of such EVMs, Banerjee claimed that only two per cent of these machines were verified by the Election Commission (EC) while there was no guarantee that the rest 98 per cent of such voting machines were not tampered with.

“In course of the election, EVMs had developed problems and had to be replaced.