New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Saturday lashed out at the “fraudulent” Congress for blaming the Election Commission of India and EVMs for its electoral losses in Maharashtra and said that it was nothing but an attempt to cover up its failure.

Talking to IANS, the former NDA minister said that instead of working on its ideology, Congress was blaming the judiciary, Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and poll panel for its defeat.

“They (Congress leaders) know EVMs were far better than ballot papers as earlier booth fixing and ballot grabbing used to occur,” he said.

He also pointed to a ‘divide within the party’ over Congress leaders’ demand for the restoration of ballot papers and stated that their contrasting voices are coming to the fore because many of them do not want to speak lies.

He said that the Congress party harbours a ‘divide and rule’ policy and advised it to accept the truth rather than blaming the constitutional agencies for their defeat.

“Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, during the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Friday, said people were rejecting party high command, and therefore a new strategy was required,” he said.

During the recent CWC meeting, Kharge hinted that “harsh decisions” should be taken in the wake of “unexpected” results in the Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly elections. He also called for correcting the party’s weaknesses and shortcomings at the organisational level.

The CWC adopted a resolution expressing concern over the alleged compromise of the integrity of the electoral process. The resolution stated that the party would soon launch a movement in response against ‘abuse’ of electoral machinery.

Underscoring the need for unity, he said, “The most important thing that I keep saying is that lack of unity and statements against each other greatly harm us. Unless we fight elections unitedly and stop making statements against each other, our unity will be ruined.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

–IANS