Priyanka shares video of alleged EVM theft by BJP candidate in West Bengal, seeks EC rethink on EVMs

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has called for a "serious re-evaluation" on the use of Electronic Voting Machines by all national parties after visuals emerged of EVMs being recovered allegedly from the car of Patharkandi BJP candidate Krishnendu Paul on the eve of the second round of polling in West Bengal.

Sharing a video of the incident, Priyanka claimed that every time election videos of private vehicles caught transporting EVMs show up, they usually belong to BJP candidates or their associates. 

She also claimed that whenever such videos emerge, the videos are seen as "one-off incidents and dismissed as aberrations", and that the BJP uses its
media machinery to accuse those who exposed the videos as sore losers.

Stating that far too many such incidents were being reported, Priyanka called upon the Election Commission to start "acting decisively on these complaints". 

"A serious re-evaluation of the use of EVMs needs to be carried out by all national parties," she said.

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