Congress asks why Omar Abdullah changed stand on matters concerning Opposition after becoming CM
On Friday, the NC leader said that the Congress cannot raise allegations regarding EVM manipulation only when election results are not in its favour.
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The Congress on Monday asked why National Conference leader Omar Abdullah’s approach to matters concerning the Opposition INDIA bloc had changed after he became the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
This came days after Abdullah said that the Congress cannot raise allegations regarding the manipulation of Electronic Voting Machines only when election results are not in its favour.
“It’s the Samajwadi Party, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) that have spoken against Electronic Voting Machines,” Congress leader Manickam Tagore said in a social media post on Monday.
Tagore’s statement was regarding the Opposition parties’ announcement that they would move the Supreme Court over the alleged manipulation of Electronic Voting Machines in the recent Maharashtra Assembly elections.
The Congress, National Conference, Samajwadi Party, Nationalist Congress Party led by Sharad Pawar and Thackeray Sena are constituents of the INDIA bloc at the national level.
In Maharashtra, the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar), Thackeray Sena and Samajwadi Party constitute the Maha Vikas Aghadi, which managed to win only 46 seats out in the 288-member Assembly.
On November 23, the ruling Mahayuti alliance – comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Shiv Sena group led by Eknath Shinde and the Nationalist Congress Party faction led by Ajit Pawar – won 230 seats.
On Wednesday,...
