Dehradun (Uttarakhand), May 22 -- : Former Uttarakhand cabinet minister and Congress leader Navprabhat on Wednesday alleged that Election Commission has no knowledge of technicians who handle EVMs used in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Navprabhat claimed that the technicians, who perform first level checks of EVMs, are not employees of Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL). He added that they are hired by a Mumbai based private company and that the poll commission does not maintain any record for these technicians.
"Chief Election Officer of state has no knowledge of these technicians and it's shocking that they can manually touch the EVM without going through any verification process," Navprabhat...