Supriya Sule shared her personal views on the issue of election recount in Baramati

Supriya Sule, a member of parliament for the Nationalist Congress Party-Sharad Pawar (NCP-SP), has expressed her own opinions on the Baramati election recount problem.

Sule disagreed with the request for a vote recount made by Yugendra Pawar, the loser in the Baramati assembly elections.

“In my opinion, Yugendra Pawar, the unsuccessful candidate from the Baramati assembly, shouldn’t request a vote recount. As a result, I requested that he withdraw the recounting application, and he has done so,” she said.

Sule, the victor of four straight elections using electronic voting machines (EVMs), defended the system’s dependability. “When I got elected four times by voting through EVMs, how can I claim there is a scam in it?” she said.

She did, however, accept the worries expressed by some societal segments about the voting process. “Many people are saying there are a lot of questions about the voters’ list,” she said, referring to continuing discussions over the voting process’s legality.

Regardless of the vote technique, the NCP leader emphasized the need of electoral openness. “If things are done transparently, be it EVMs or ballots, then what is the issue?” she inquired.

“Let it be done that way if people prefer ballot-paper elections,” she said. What’s wrong? Sule’s remarks demonstrated her opposition to the calls for a recount in Baramati and her conviction that an open election process is essential.

Karan Singh Dalal, a five-time MLA and former Haryana Cabinet Minister, filed a case with the Supreme Court, which has set a hearing for January 2025 to examine and verify the EVMs used in the most recent Haryana Assembly elections.
A court headed by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna heard the plea, which was co-filed with Lakhan Kumar Singla, a candidate in the Haryana elections.

The Election Commission of India’s senior attorney, Maninder Singh, told the court that a similar appeal had already been dropped before a bench led by Justice Dipankar Datta. CJI Khanna responded by ordering that the case be scheduled for hearing before Justice Datta the week of January 20, 2025.

Through attorney Aljo K. Joseph, Dalal filed the petition, which asks for a policy for EVM verification and adherence to a previous ruling by the Supreme Court on the matter.

Having received the second-highest number of votes in their respective constituencies, Dalal and co-petitioner Lakhan Kumar Singla have asked the poll panel to establish a procedure for analyzing the original “burnt memory” or microcontroller of the four EVM components: the Control Unit, Ballot Unit, VVPAT, and Symbol Loading Unit.