Chairman of the overseas wing of the Congress Sam Pitroda said Saturday바카라 웹사이트 that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are not foolproof.바카라 웹사이트
Pitroda, who is credited with having laid the foundation for India's telecommunications and technology revolution of the 1980s,바카라 웹사이트 said: "I have tried to study EVMs, whose design is 15-year-old and information about these machines is very sketchy.
"Transportation of these machines and counting are the바카라 웹사이트two areas that can have leakages," he said, adding that though바카라 웹사이트he could not pinpoint where the weakness in EVMs lies, "if you
say these are 100 per cent foolproof, I don't buy it", the technocrat-turned-politician said in an interaction with reporters at the Mumbai Press Club.
"I can't put my finger on it and say this is it.. One is (possibility of) tampering of the electronic, other is supply chain, where it is stored, who keeps track of it, how do you count it. No one in the world is using electronic machines the way we use. Everyone has said there is no trust. The US, Germans, nobody trusts but we do," he said, at another event.
The coming election was the "most important election바카라 웹사이트in modern history of India", he said.
Pitroda, who was part of the Congress' manifesto바카라 웹사이트committee for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, claimed that바카라 웹사이트fulfilling the promises made in the document was feasible.
He said it was drafted after enough consultations바카라 웹사이트and homework, and added that it could be fulfilled just as "we바카라 웹사이트achieved (implementation of) NREGA (National Rural Employment
Guarantee Act) scheme".
On the flak he faced for seeking more information바카라 웹사이트about the Balakot air-strike conducted by the Indian Air바카라 웹사이트Force, Pitroda said the statement was made in his personal바카라 웹사이트capacity, and therefore it would not hurt his party.
Speaking at another event, he said that veteran BJP leader L K Advani's바카라 웹사이트assertion that his party did not consider political바카라 웹사이트adversaries as anti-national was "timely".
Addressing바카라 웹사이트 an event organised by the All India Professionals Congress, he said: "I think what he has said is very timely and important."바카라 웹사이트
"He said two things - first nation, then party, then바카라 웹사이트self. Modi today is all about self-promotion. Two, he said if바카라 웹사이트somebody disagrees with us, doesn't mean they are바카라 웹사이트anti-national. I respect that, I agree with him. I thank him바카라 웹사이트for saying this at the right time. That is a leader," Pitroda
said.
Taking potshots at Modi, he said there were바카라 웹사이트similarities between him and Donald Trump.
"Both leaders are saying enemy is at the border. Here바카라 웹사이트it is Pakistan and Muslims. There it is Mexicans and바카라 웹사이트immigrants. Both leaders are saying nobody (else) knows바카라 웹사이트anything ...(In India Modi is saying) Congress didn't do anything, (Trump is saying) Democrats didn't do anything.
(Trump said) Hillary Clinton was corrupt, (Modi says) Rahul바카라 웹사이트Gandhi is corrupt," Pitroda said.
Recalling a meeting with former prime minister late바카라 웹사이트Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Pitroda said he was "spontaneous", did바카라 웹사이트not have to make an effort to be amiable and was a good human바카라 웹사이트being. "That's what India's PM has to be," he added.
"Like Rahul Gandhi has been saying, India's soul, future, the idea of India is at stake....we believed in truth, trust, love, inclusion, non-violence, democracy, freedom. All of these are being challenged today," he said.
He also alleged that Indian media has been bought, and바카라 웹사이트unlike in the US, "institutions have been captured바카라 웹사이트systematically" in India.
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