Mumbai. Elon Musk had posted on X and claimed that EVMs can be hacked. After this, politics has heated up once again regarding EVMs. The entire opposition is raising questions on EVMs. Rahul Gandhi is also among them. Rahul Gandhi had reposted Elon Musk’s post and called EVMs a black box. He had said that no one is allowed to investigate EVMs. Maharashtra CM and Shiv Sena President Eknath Shinde has now retaliated on this statement of Rahul Gandhi. Eknath Shinde has challenged Rahul Gandhi and the winning leaders of Mahavikas Aghadi to resign and contest elections again.
Eknath Shinde taunted that where Mahavikas Aghadi won more seats, EVMs were fine and where it lost, it is saying that the machines are faulty. What kind of talk is this? Then he said that the people of Mahavikas Aghadi should resign from where they won and contest elections again. Eknath Shinde said that Rahul Gandhi has won elections from two places, so is the EVM faulty there too? He said that if the EVM is faulty, then Rahul Gandhi should also resign and contest elections again.
Questions have been raised about EVMs since 2014. In 2014 and 2019, opposition parties had complained of election tampering through EVMs. This time the opposition got more seats. After this, questions were not being raised on EVMs, but after Elon Musk’s post on X, the issue has come up again. Former Union Minister Rajiv Chandrashekhar even talked about giving a tutorial to Elon Musk. After which Elon Musk claimed that anything can be hacked. By the way, when the apprehensions of hacking EVMs were being raised, the Election Commission had invited all political parties to its office and asked them to demonstrate tampering with EVMs. At that time, no representative of any political party had gone.