The time and date of voting should be printed on the VVPAT slip of the EVM machine  | Hearing on the writ petition filed in the Supreme Court tomorrow

EVM Machine VVPAST Slip |  Congress leaders Abhay Chajed Pune Congress and Ramesh Ayer Pune Congress have filed a petition in the Supreme Court for the demand that the time and date of voting should be printed on the EVM Machine VVPAT Slip.  has done  The petition was filed before the bench of Chief Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, Justice Manoj Mishra of the Supreme Court on February 2 and this petition will come up for hearing on February 7.

In this regard, the Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Election Commission and the Central Government and has asked them to submit their comments on February 7.  Ed. Abhay Anil Anturkar, Ed. Surbhi Kapoor and Ed. Asim Sarode are pleading in the Supreme Court on behalf of Congress leaders Ed. Abhay Chhajed and Ramesh Iyer.

Congress leaders Ed. Abhay Chhajed and Ramesh Iyer have given this information in a press release today in Pune.

The main demand of the petitioners is that the time and date of each vote should be printed on the VVPAT slips used in the elections. In the 2019 elections, the time and date were not printed on the slips. In the recently held Kasba Vidhan Sabha by-election, Congress candidate Ravindra Dhangekar  The petitioners have brought to the notice of the Supreme Court that although the expert committee of the Election Commission recommended that slips should be printed with the date and time of polling, it has not been implemented from time to time.  In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the government and the Election Commission should coordinate and implement the recommendations of the expert committee.

It is the voter’s right to get a slip mentioning the date and time of voting. The functioning of EVM machines and VVPAT slips should be reliable and should be improved to make elections in a free and transparent environment, the petitioners said in the petition.