Mumbai : Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut said that as the Lok Sabha elections are going on in the country now, there is a fear in the minds of the common people about EVMs. "People want change in the country, but no matter how many buttons are pressed, the votes will go to Kamal (Lotus)", he said at a press conference here on Tuesday.
Criticising the BJP on EVMs, Raut said that there is opposition to EVM machines from all over the world and similar objections are also being expressed strongly in India as well. Therefore, we had requested the Election Commission not to hold elections with EVMs, said Sanjay Raut. But if the election is not held on EVMs, the BJP is afraid that it will suffer, so it conducts elections on EVMs only, he said. This time, Sanjay Raut challenged BJP to show courage to hold elections without EVMs.
On the alliance, Sanjay Raut said they were still in discussions with Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi. The position of all the leaders of Mahavikas Aghadi is to save the constitution of the country and to save democracy, he said. "Prakash Ambedkar should come with us, the discussion has not stopped. We had proposed 5 seats to Vanchit, but as it was not acceptable to him, he has announced to contest on his own. They have announced some candidates but we are still in discussions. And we all want the underprivileged to come to the forefront of Mahavikas Aghadi", he said.