Swamy taunts 'fraud' Kejriwal on BJP's Rajouri Garden bypoll victory

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Thursday alleged that the saffron party's victory in the by-poll in Rajouri Garden Assembly seat exposes the fact that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is a universal fraud, will be critical in the general election how people feel.

Swamy said the people are now turning against the AAM Aadmi Party (Diligence) Supremo as they feel.

"So, the enthusiasm with which they came to him, they feel and, therefore, are disappointed. They will thrash him everywhere. They have already thrashed in Punjab. They thrashed him in Goa and now they are thrashing him in Delhi, "said Ani.

Responding to a Asking on the opponent who took the ongoing debate on the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) President Pranab Mukherjee's doorstep, Swamy jocularly remarked that none of them had done any research.

"The people are laughing and many people are ashamed to say the Congress is opposing EVM. So, Amarinder Singh has always been a man who gets worried about his own image at the cost of the party. Then, you take a stand, "he said.

"Out of 20 VVPAT (voter-verifiable Paper Audit Trail) constituencies in UP, we (BJP) has won 17. So, how can you say that if there VVPAT (and) the BJP will have a victory, "he added.

Going against the party line on the EVM row, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh yesterday said that if VVPAT machines were tempered with and the Congress would not have won the election in the state.

The Congress won 77 of 117 seats in Punjab, making a comeback after a decade.

The Congress Party, however, today trying to differ from the Chief Minister's assertion while reminding him that his preferred as the EVMs can be gerrymandered.

Congress leader Manish Tewari said Singh had demonstrated as to how the EVMs can be manipulated, when it was the Punjab Congress Committee (pcc) president in 2001.

"The Chief Minister of Punjab is a respected leader, but a few years back in 2010 and even in 2001, when he was in pcc President, that your indicators as to how the EVMs can be gerrymandered," Tewari told ANI .

The Election Commission has issued a challenge to all political parties to prove that the EVMs can be tampered with.

This came after the Congress, Left, Diligence and others said that EVMs were tampered with to favor the BJP.