Hyderabad, April 13 -- Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu launched an attack on the Election Commission for "trying to defeat his party in the 11 April Assembly and Lok Sabha polling". Naidu on Saturday rushed to Delhi to lodge a complaint with the EC and meet with like-minded political parties to discuss the issue of bringing back the ballot paper in place of EVMs.

He will also file a review petition in the Supreme Court on Monday on re-introducing ballot papers in place of EVMs (electronic voting machines), post "certain incidents" that occurred in the first phase of polling in his state. Naidu's TDP was among the 21 political parties that had moved the Supreme Court seeking counting of...