SRMIST HOSTS GUEST LECTURE BY FORMER CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER N GOPALASWAMI
Former CEC Flays Fake News On EVMs For Creating Myth. SRMIST founder chancellor and MP, Dr T R Paarivendhar said the lecture was the first in a series planned by the institution to spark public debates on burning issues. Chennai, June, 2019: Taking a dig at winners in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections who had made an issue of so-called rigged Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), former Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami observed that these critics had fallen silent now and gave praised the ‘Janata Janardhan’ (supreme public mandate) for their victory. Speaking on ‘Indian Elections And Enduring Myths” at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology on Saturday , Gopalaswami remarked in lighter vein spiced with sarcasm that leaders who contested from two constituencies, winning one seat and losing the other, should now ponder which EVMs in which booths were tampered with. Former Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswam...