‘Many factors against BJP, but if you…’: Owaisi on Congress’s EVM charge for Haryana loss | India News – Times of India

Lashing out at the Congress on Wednesday, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said many factors were against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the recently held Haryana elections but it was “significantly painful” that Congress was still unable to defeat the party.
Owaisi also said it is wrong to blame Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) for the defeat in the Assembly elections in Haryana.
“It is very easy to blame EVMs. You win because of EVMs and if you lose then it is wrong. My view is that the BJP should have lost this state. There were many factors working against them. So if you If we defeat the BJP here, it will be a significant pain,” Owaisi told news agency ANI.
His statement came after the Congress blamed the system and EVMs for the defeat in the recently concluded elections in which the BJP won 48 seats and the country’s oldest party could get only 37 seats.
Notably, the BJP contested 89 of the 90 seats in Haryana and chose not to field a candidate in Sirsa, where its ally, Gopal Kanda, was the sitting MLA; However, Kanda lost his seat in the elections.
Yesterday, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh wrote a letter to the Election Commission complaining about the slowness Haryana election update results. Later in the day, he also alleged at a press conference that there were serious complaints in several constituencies over the integrity of the counting process and functioning of EVMs.
The party also said that the EVMs, who were fully charged, were leading the Congress, while those with a “60%-70%” charge appeared to have been manipulated to favor the BJP. Jairam and Pawan Khera also alleged that the EC website delayed showing data when Congress seemed to be taking charge.