Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora has said that elections will continue to be held through EVMs and the country will not return to ballot papers. He also said that simultaneous elections were a desirable goal for the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Speaking in the session 'Chunav Ka Challenge!' of 'Agenda Aaj Tak' at New Delhi today, Sunil Arora cited Supreme Court judgment which upheld the use of EVMs.
"We are not going back to ballot papers. It is not in the interest of anyone to go back to the paper ballots. The ECI has collectively rejected the demand to reintroduce ballot papers in the past, is rejecting it now and will do so in the future," he said.
West Bengal Governor RN Ravi has dissolved the state legislative assembly with effect from May 7 after completion of its term. With this, Mamata Banerjee, who refused to resign after TMC's debacle in the assembly poll, is no longer the chief minister.
Days after Congress severed its long-standing alliance with DMK to extend conditional support to the TVK, the DMK passed a resolution condemning the grand old party for betrayal and said the 'INDIA bloc is gone'.
The big focus of this episode 5 Live is on the political standoff in Tamil Nadu, where Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has paused the swearing-in of TVK chief Vijay asking to return only after securing signatures of 118 MLAs to prove majority support.
This episode of So Sorry is a funny take on Vijay's blockbuster entry into Tamil Nadu politics in the just concluded assembly election and who is all set to become the chief minister.
