An American hacker Syed Shuja’s assertion that he was in the staff of the Electronic Corporation of India, which developed and made the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) for Indian election and he said that EVM were rigged in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls to manipulate election results.
He said it at a press conference in London in which the Congress leader Mr.Kapil Sibbal was present. His presence at the press conference has generated a fierce political controversy in India. The BJP Union Minister Mr.Ravi Shankar Prasad charged that the Shuja’s press conference was a clear indication that it was Congress move.
Obviously Mr.Kapil Sibbal is not a professional journalist and his presence at the Shuja’s press conference was a unusual move. He was an outsider and had no business to be there. Mr.Sibbal defended himself by saying that he was invited there by the organizer of the event. Then too the question remained unanswered that why at all he was invited.
Mr.LK Advani was the first person who expressed doubt about the authenticity of EVM. Later in 2014 when Bahujan Samaj Party was badly defeated in the Lok Sabha election in 2014 in Uttar Pradesh, the BSP President Mayawati also said that in Uttar Pradesh BJP has not won but it was victory of EVM that were manipulated.
The Election Commission on all such occasions vehemently denied all such allegation and asserted that EVM were fool proof and cannot be manipulated. The Commission openly challenged that let anyone come and prove it. It placed the EVM for open inspection.
On EVM controversy the Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi said that Congress was creating atmosphere against the EVM to justify its possible defeat in the coming Lok Sabha Election in March-April this year.
The Election Commission badly shaken and disturbed by the Shuja’s allegation has asked the Delhi Police to register the FIR against such allegation. The Delhi police has registered a case against unknown persons under Section 505 of the Indian Penal Code (Statement conducing to public mischief).
The Delhi Police prove and investigations apart from examining Shuja’s antecedent and motive will cover all angles including any political backing it has in Shuja action.