After its loss in the Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly polls, the Congress has expressed doubts about the EVM’s infallibility and the election outcome.It has demanded a return to the paper ballot.Abdullah’s comments add to his National Conference party’s unhappiness with the Congress, which was allied with it during the September Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.NC officials have privately said that the Congress did not do its bit during the campaigning and left all the heavy lifting to them.Still, the NC won 42 seats in the 90-member Assembly, and the Congress got six.The chief minister emphasised that electoral machines remain the same regardless of the election outcome, and parties should not use them as a convenient excuse for defeat.”One day voters choose you, the next day they don’t,” he said and gave his own example of facing defeat in Lok Sabha polls while winning a majority in the September assembly polls.”I never blamed the machines,” he said.
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