Allegations of EVM tampering rubbish: Shivpal Singh Yadav

Lucknow: Senior Samajwadi leader Shivpal Singh Yadav, on Thursday, fired a salvo at his own party when he rubbished allegations of EVM tampering.

Samajwadi president Akhilesh Yadav has all along alleged that rigged EVMs were responsible for his party’s defeat in assembly elections and now in municipal elections. The Bahujan Samaj Party had also accused tampering of EVMs.

“If EVMs had been rigged, I would not have been elected as legislator”, he said during a wedding in Mainpuri district”, he told reporters.

Mr Shivpal Yadav said that many of his supporters had also won the municipal elections and there was no proof to allege that EVMs were tampered.