New Delhi [India], April 29 : Targeting the Congress after the Supreme Court ruling on Electronic Voting Machines, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said one cannot fix the elections of such a big country and the Congress is just fooling the world.
In an interview with News18, PM Modi said, "The answer to the EVM claim has been given by the Supreme Court of the country. In 2014, they had ED and CBI, then why did they lose? They even put my Home Minister in the jail, then why did they lose?"
"If elections could have been won by ED-CBI, then ED-CBI's work has been done by the Congress for years, then they would have won. You can't fix the election of such a big country, even for a municipality you can't fix this. Try it. Is this fixing possible? They are just fooling the world," PM Modi added.
He was responding to the allegations that opposition parties, Rahul Gandhi, Congress and others, "all say that Modiji is doing match-fixing".
Supreme Court last week rejected petitions seeking 100 per cent verification of votes cast on EVMs with paper slips generated through VVPATs (Voter-verified paper audit trail.
The apex court also rejected the plea of petitioners to return to ballot paper voting on April 26. The two-judge bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta delivered a unanimous verdict.
"The sad thing is that instead of asking those people, the media asks us. For the past few days, the people of INDI alliance have become so disappointed that they are looking for excuses, you need to go in front of the people. That is why I think that may be they are already looking for all these excuses. This is probably there internal exercise," PM Modi added.
Several developed countries in the world like Germany, the Netherlands, and the US have banned the use of EVMs.
The Supreme Court ruling came at a time when the country is holding the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in seven phases running from April 19 to June 1. The counting and results will be declared on June 4.