The Aam Aadmi Party conducted an experiment on a dummy EVM in the Assembly to show that the machines could be tampered with. The EC, however, rejected their claims. The session was attended by the sacked minister Kapil Mishra who has now said that he will go on hunger strike from tomorrow if the AAP doesn’t reveal details of foreign tours by its leaders.
The Aam Aadmi Party conducted an experiment on a dummy EVM in the Assembly to show that the machines could be tampered with. The EC, however, rejected their claims. The session was attended by the sacked minister Kapil Mishra who has now said that he will go on hunger strike from tomorrow if the AAP doesn’t reveal details of foreign tours by its leaders.
The Delhi Assembly’s special session had a tumultuous start with Opposition leader Vijender Singh being escorted out of the house on the order of the Speaker. MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj then conducted an experiment, saying a dummy EVM could be rigged with a secret code. The election commission, however, dismissed the AAP demonstration in the house.
Earlier in the day sacked minister Kapil Mishra, filed three complaints with the CBI. He had, on Monday, submitted complaint to the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) against the CM in connection with an alleged water tanker scam on Monday. The AAP, which has been battling a string of electoral losses, has come under fire from the opposition over the charges. Both the BJP and the Congress had sought the CM’s resignation over Mishra’s allegations.
3.16pm: Election Commission reaction: EC sources say any machine that goes outside its secured premises ceases to be an EVM used for polls. “This is a prototype, they should come to the hackathon and prove our EVMs can be manipulated,” sources to HT. Read: Election Commission to throw ‘open challenge’ to check EVMs
3.12pm: Tampering demo: Claims the party which has ‘secret code’ can make their selected candidates win.
3.09pm: Tampering demo: Bhardwaj repeats the test again to show the malfunction.
3.06pm: Tampering demo: Saurabh Bhardwaj resets EVM and demonstrates how the very same EVM, which passes mock test, is manipulated during actual polls. Bhardwaj conducts another test on the EVM. Gives two votes to each party but the results show a disparity.
3.02pm: Tampering demo: “Generally the returning officer calls the candidates and displays the functioning of the EVMs. But this is how he can befool the observers,” says Bhardwaj.
2.59pm: Saurabh Bhardwaj speaks: Says he has done engineering and had 10 years of experience in the field. Says he knows how embedded systems and softwares function. Says anyone can tamper with it easily within 10-15 minutes
. 2.55pm: Tampering demo: MLAs bring in the machine to demonstrate EVM tampering. Saurabh Bhardwaj addresses the House.
2.50pm: In the gallery: TMC’s Sukhendu Sekhar, Congress’s Tehseen Poonawalla, RJD’s Manoj Jha and CPM’s Nilotpal Basu.
2.45pm: Naresh Yadav in House: There will be day when everyone will believe that the EVM issue for which the CM raised his voice was for real. People will come to know why the BJP that used to object to EVMs fell silent on the matter.
2.43pm: Vijender Gupta says Arvind Kejriwal and Satyendar Jain are together involved in corruption. Demands Jain’s arrest.
2.40pm: Naresh Yadav in House: Governments across the globe have banned EVMs. Big countries have never even tried EVMs.
2.37pm:Alka Lamba in House: “In Chattarpur ward 70S total vote polled were 26,445 but EVM counted 26,884 votes. Our candidate lost in that ward by just two votes. My colleagues will present more proof.” 2.35pm:
Kapil Mishra now sitting in the last row, listening to Alka Lamba speak with a forlorn look. 2.33pm: Alka Lamba in House: Thanks VV Rao, who had petitioned the Supreme Court in the EVMs case. Says it has led to the decision to introduce EVMs with paper trail.
2.31pm: Alka Lamba in House: “In Tughlakabad four EVMs were tampered with and their seals were broken. CCTV footage from the polling station after 12.30am is not available.” 2.29pm: Alka Lamba in House:“When generation three EVMs remain locked up, why generation one EVMs are being used? The Election Commission will have to reply now.” 2.26pm: Alka Lamba starts speaking on the issue of allegedly faulty EVMs. Kapil Mishra enters the assembly hall.
2.24pm: Vijender Gupta marshaled out of the House on order of the Speaker. BJP left with two MLAs. 2.18pm: Chandni Chowk MLA Alka Lamba asks why the opposition is so scared. “Do you think the big revelation will finish you,” she says.
2.15pm: BJP tries to move adjournment motion. Sacked AAP minister has not arrived in the House so far. 2.13pm: Speaker doesn’t allow Leader of Opposition Vijender Gupta to discuss corruption charges in the House.
2.11pm: Speaker warns member against creating chaos in the Assembly. So far around 43 MLAs are present in the House. Three MLAs from opposition are present, including MS Sirsa. 2.10pm: Speaker Ram Niwas welcomes new MLA MS Sirsa who won from Rajouri Garden in assembly bypoll last month. House holds two minutes’ silence for Sukma martyrs.
2.08pm: AAP invites TMC, JDU to be present in the gallery for the demo. Assembly session begins. 2.06pm: AAP MLA Saurab Bhardwaj to give demo on EVM tampering in Assembly. 2.02pm: Suspended AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan reaches Vidhan Sabha.
2.00pm: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal reaches Vidhan Sabha for the special Assembly session.
1.45pm: Kapil Mishra comes out of CBI office, reiterates demand that AAP leaders should make their foreign trips public; says he has files three complaints with the CBI.
1.35pm: Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari lashes out at AAP* Says AAP came up to fight against black money, but there are discrepancies in financial declarations made by the party.
1.25pm: The AAP leaders, who are holding a meeting at chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s house, are reportedly discussing party’s strategy for the special assembly session in the afternoon. While the primary agenda for the session is EVMs, the leaders are discussing the possibility of raising other issues at the assembly today.
1.15pm: Kapil Mishra alleges “illegal funding” of AAP during the Punjab elections and claims that tickets were being “sold” by the party during the MCD elections.
1.05pm: Top AAP leaders Manish Sisodia, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh and Arvind Kejriwal meet at the Delhi CM’s residence.
12.50pm: Kapil Mishra says he was sacked as cabinet minister because he wrote a letter to the Anti Corruption Branch. “If I had not written a letter to the ACB, then he would have not sacked me as the state cabinet minister. I have many evidences against Kejriwal. I know Kejriwal will try to give clarification on all the allegations made by me in the Delhi Assembly today and also brand me as a liar and a corrupt. I know his every tactics,” Mishra said. Read: Mishra targets Kejriwal with ‘proof’ of land deal 12.40pm:
Congress leader Tom Vadakkan urges immediate action against the corrupt elements in AAP. “In view of the new inputs, the anti-corruption chief must investigate this matter urgently. Because on the basis of this an FIR must be launched against the accused and action must be taken against these corrupt elements,” said Vadakkan.
12.30pm: Kapil Mishra at CBI office Mishra claims that he will file three complaints with CBI. One against Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly taking bribe of Rs 2 crore from Satyendar Jain. Second, against the health minister Satyendar Jain for allegedly fixing a land deal for a relative of Kejriwal. Third complaint will be related to alleged foreign tour of five leaders of AAP: Raghav Chadha, Satyendar Jain, Sanjay Singh, Ashish Khaitan and Durgesh Pandey.
Read: Kejriwal says truth will prevail 12.20pm: Kapil Mishra reaches CBI office to lodge official complaint against Arvind Kejriwal. 12.15pm: Mishra widens attack on AAP: Tweets that party must make public the details of foreign trips by Raghav Chadha, Ashish Khetan, Sanjay Singh, Satyendar Jain and Durgesh Pathak. Says he will sit on hunger strike from tomorrow if these details are not made public.
12.05pm: Mishra takes on AAP over foreign trips by leaders: Kapil Mishra steps up demand to reveal details of foreign tours of AAP leaders. Says some party leaders have made dozens of foreign trips out of state expense and illegal money. Says party should make public where these leaders went, who they met and how much time they spent in which country. 11.55am: BJP Delhi Youth Wing members hold protest outside chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s house. Delhi police use water canons as protesters attempt to cross barricades.
11. 35am: A big conspiracy against the country, says Kejriwal: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal says Saurabh Bhardwaj will unmask a “big conspiracy” in the assembly today. Read: Kejriwal promises ‘big exposé’ in Delhi assembly today, focus likely to be EVMs
Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com
