{"id":4027,"date":"2019-01-19T15:18:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T09:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:46","slug":"no-evms-demand-opposition-leaders-at-the-united-india-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/no-evms-demand-opposition-leaders-at-the-united-india-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"No EVMs, demand Opposition leaders at the United India Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of leaders today said that they were against the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the coming Lok Sabha elections. National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah called the EVM a \u201c<em>chor<\/em> (thief) machine\u201d. \u201cNowhere in the world are EVMs used,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu too mentioned this issue at the United India Rally. \u201cEVM is a fraud. I want to say this that paper ballots should be used,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders insisted that the matter should be taken up with the Election Commission of India (EC). The leaders have in the past too, raised this issue several times with the EC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of leaders today said that they were against the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the coming Lok Sabha elections. National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah called the EVM a \u201cchor (thief) machine\u201d. \u201cNowhere in the world are EVMs used,\u201d he said. Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu too mentioned this issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":4028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}