---------- *PRESS RELEASE* > > > *AN APPEAL TO POLITICAL PARTIES & TO THE CITIZENS OF INDIA* > > > > We, the undersigned, are deeply perturbed and concerned with reports > coming in from various part of the country of EVM machines and even a VVPAT > being transported in unauthorized trucks and private vehicles, the alleged > attempts to exchange the EVM machines from strong rooms and replace them > with alternate EVM machines. There are also videos of EVMs being stored in > unauthorized storage houses and shops. > > > > While the election commission has denied over years that EVMs can be > tampered, many of us have been raising the issue of EVM tampering from > Gujarat 2002 election onwards. > > > We are concerned that Voters’ Verdict sealed inside the EVM machines is > sought to be tampered. We strongly believe that the responsibility of > ensuring that the Voters’ Verdict is not changed and manipulated lies with > the Election Commission. However, the role of the Election Commission can > no longer said to be neutral, which is visible from the internal news > coming out of the Election Commission, where the commission refused to > include the dissent note of Ashok Lavasa in commission’s orders. We are > appealing to political parties as well as the ordinary citizens of India > who have fought for the last five years against the authoritarian communal > fascist regime to ensure the safety of the EVM machines. We request you > to: 1. Guard the Strong Rooms round the clock 2. Do not allow > any unauthorized EVMs to be brought into the strong rooms. 3. Report > any suspicious activity immediately on social media 4. On the day of > the counting the representatives of political parties must a. Check > that the EVMs are sealed before the counting begins b. Check the > Number of the EVM machine and tally it with the list of EVM machines in > which voting was done in your particular booth. > > 5. Report to the media, party and local authorities and stop the > process of declaration of result and demand re-polling. > > > > We appeal to the security personnel, the law enforcement agencies to > ensure that on May 23rd the counting passes off peacefully and no violence > is tolerated. > > > > Campaign to go back to ballot like all developed countries will continue > after the formation of the new government. > > > > Signed > > > > Aditya Mukherjee, academician, historian, Delhi > > Anand Mazgaonkar, Gujarat > > Annie Raja, National General Secretary, NFIW, Delhi > > Anshu Malviya, poet, UP > > Aruna Roy, MKSS, Rajasthan > > Danial Mazgaonkar, Gujarat > > Dev Desai, Social activist, Gujarat > > Dhruv Sangari, musician, singer, Delhi > > Dinesh Abrol, former scientist, Delhi > > Dipen Desai, Gujarat > > Gauhar Raza, former scientist, poet, Delhi > > Jyotibhai Desai, Gujarat > > Kamal Krishna Vaish, UP > > Koninika Ray, NFIW, Delhi > > Mahesh Pandya, social & environmental activist, Gujarat > > Manjula Pradeep, social activist, Gujarat > > Michael Mazgaonkar, Gujarat > > Mridula Mukherjee, academician, historian, Delhi > > Neeta Mahadev, Social activist, Gujarat > > Nikhil Dey, MKSS, Rajasthan > > Padma Singh, National President, Jagriti Samaj, UP > > Parth Trivedi, Gujarat > > Prakash Shah, writer, Gujarat > > PVS Kumar, former scientist, Delhi > > Rahul Kapoor, research scholar, Delhi > > Ram Puniyani, writer, social activist, Mumbai > > Ravi Kiran Jain, National President, PUCL > > Raza Mehdi, Engineer, Delhi > > Rohit Shukla, academician & social activist, Gujarat > > Ruth Zothanpuli, activist, Delhi > > Shabnam Hashmi, social activist, Delhi > > Sheba George, social activist, Gujarat > > SM Abbas, Librarian, Delhi > > Subodh Mohanti, former Director, Vigyan Prasar, Delhi > > Swati Desai, Gujarat > > Syeda Hameed, writer, former member, Planning Commission of India, Delhi > > Tazeen Mohammed, academician, Delhi > > Zafar Bakht, social activist, UP >
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