EVMs and Opposition parties

 The Supreme Court's decision to junk the plea by a petitioner to revert to the practice of using paper ballots instead of the EVM's that were susceptible to malpractice was junked by the Apex Court asserting the procedure for conducting elections in the country was devoid of any irregularities. The Apex Court's judgement is crucial in view of the fact that Congress President Kharge has been emphasising on the need to the use of paper ballots to reduce malpractices in the electoral process. The Supreme Court's cryptic observation that when a party loses it finds flaws with EVM's otherwise they are quite satisfied when on the winning side. Following its electoral success in the preceding Lok Sabha election results the opposition parties did not raise any complaints about the EVMs but after their electoral rout in Maharashtra and the assembly bypolls in several regional constituencies it has once again started blaming the EVM's as in the past. Despite getting a snub from the Apex Court repeatedly over the issue of EVM's being vulnerable to tampering the opposition political outfits continue to focus on a subject that deserves very little merit or no merit at all. Congress President Kharge's call to undertake a nationwide campaign on the lines of Bharat Jodo Jatra is devoid of any logical base. The Congress has even gone to the extent of saying that EVM'S are tampered with in politically vital states while the less important ones are spared to show the normal functioning of the EVM's. These types of ideas emanating from a party which occupies an important place in national politics is nothing short of being ludicrous. As long as the opposition parties are at the receiving end such kinds of allegations will continue to surface only to be met with disappointing outcomes.