*NEW DELHI: Congress President Rahul Gandhi has called for using of ballotpapers in India like Pakistan employ in its elections.*
While addressing the media, Gandhi said that if Pakistan can use ballotpapers then India should consider doing so as well as it could save a lotof electricity which gets wasted to keep the machines operational for hours.
“Using Ballot papers instead of electronic voting machines will help saveus a lot of electricity which gets wasted during 10 hours while the EVM isON,” he added.
According to Times, Rahul Gandhi said, ‘If Pakistan can use Ballot Papersfor it’s elections, why can’t India?”
Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) are being used in Indian General and StateElections to implement electronic voting in part from 1999 elections andrecently in 2017 state elections. Ballot Papers have been replaced by theENMs in India.
Earlier this year as well, the Congress asserted that the ElectionCommission should go back to using ballot in order to ensure credibility tothe election process.
His comments came as voting for Pakistan general elections trendedworldwide.