Accept defeat with grace: BJP leader tells the opposition
Accept defeat with grace: BJP leader tells the opposition
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NEW DELHI:  On Tuesday, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) condemned opposition parties for questioning the credibility of EVM and asked them to accept their defeat with grace if the people vote Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power again. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the opposition must accept defeat with grace if Narendra Modi gets the mandate to become prime minister again.

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He took a swipe at the opposition, saying EVMs were fine when its leaders like Mamata Banerjee, N Chandrababu Naidu, and Amarinder Singh win elections and come to power, but the machines turn unreliable when it appears PM Modi will come back to power.

"EVM is good when Mamata Banerjee became West Bengal chief minister twice and Amarinder Singh became Punjab chief minister. If they win, EVM is good. But when there is an expectation that we will win because people of this country want Narendra Modi to be prime minister again, then EVM is unreliable. The BJP condemns their (opposition) conduct and will tell humbly to accept their defeat with grace," he was quoted as saying by PTI.

Describing the opposition as "demoralized and defeated", BJP leader said, "By the end of the fourth phase they had realized that they are not going to win the election and people are overwhelmingly supporting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Therefore they started finding excuses."

Meanwhile, the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday set up a 24-hour control room to monitor complaints relating to EVMs.

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