Bengaluru, Sept. 5 -- The Karnataka Cabinet's recommendation to conduct upcoming panchayat and urban local body elections using ballot papers instead of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) has sparked a political stir.
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale sharply criticised the state government's move, saying it undermines the authority of the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Athawale remarked, "If votes are being stolen, then you go to the Election Commission and tell them. I do not agree with the state government's announcement to conduct the municipal elections on ballot paper because the Congress party itself brought the EVM machine. We have no objection to ballot paper either, but the state government probably does not have that right. Th...