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Chandrababu Naidu Met Mamata Banerjee, Gearing up for Mahagathbandhan

After the exit poll results, the opposition parties are in talking terms. What are their issues with the EVM, and what will be the outcome? Find out.

Chandrababu Naidu Met Mamata Banerjee, Gearing up for Mahagathbandhan

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu had been on a "Stop BJP" mission even before the elections got over. Be that as it may, his solitary meeting on Monday- - the morning after leave elections anticipated an agreeable triumph or the BJP - with Mamata Banerjee, holds a trace of concern. "We will talk about governmental issues," Mr. Naidu had said before his visit to Kolkata. At that point, he included, "We even mentioned her to come to Delhi for a meeting with the Election Commission."

While there was no word from him after the meeting, Bengal's ministers of Trinamool Congress said the opposition parties are meeting the Election Commission tomorrow to express their worries about EVM.  

Andhra Pradesh chief minister and TDP pioneer N Chandrababu Naidu held a meeting with West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at her home in Kolkata on Monday to examine the likelihood of framing a non-BJP government at the Center in case of a hung Lok Sabha, TMC sources said.

Naidu, who came to from Amaravati, held a 45-minute-long meeting with Banerjee on the future systems of the "Mahagatbandhan" (Grand Alliance), according to sources.

The pioneers likewise talked about potential outcomes of framing a non-BJP government incorporating provincial meetings with the help of the Congress, they said.



The choice on Banerjee going to New Delhi would likewise be taken after May 23, the sources said.

Naidu is endeavoring ways to unite opposition parties against the BJP, left for New Delhi after this meeting.

Samajwadi Party head Akhilesh Yadav called Banerjee amid the day and talked about the proposed system of the "Mahagathbandhan," as per reports.

The TDP president had on Sunday approached National Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar and furthermore met CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury.

On Saturday he had met BSP leader Mayawati and Yadav.

Amid his meeting with Banerjee, the TDP boss talked about the meetings, the TMC sources said.

The exit polls gave an unmistakable decision for the BJP, which was named by Banerjee as "gossip."

The TMC supremo had said that she doesn't believe such studies as these seem to be "course of action" and is utilized for "control" of EVMs.

Recently, after the elections finished up, the exit polls anticipated a rebound for the BJP - the range was wide, from a protected more significant part to an avalanche win. A total of exit poll additionally demonstrated that Jaganmohan Reddy, Mr. Naidu's main adversary in Andhra Pradesh, will win 15 of the state's 25 seats while he got just 10.


Both Mr. Naidu and Mamata Banerjee have rubbished the exit polls case.

On Monday, Mr. Naidu said the Election Commission ought to build up straightforwardness and responsibility, and addressed why it isn't directing 50 percent tallying of the slips from VVPAT (Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail machines).

"Presently we are inquiring as to whether there is any inconsistency then you need to go for all-out tallying of that total fragment. Why are you postponing? Why you are keeping away from?" he said.

Bringing up that "individuals are everywhere throughout the world are talking of EVM control," Mr. Naidu said all EVMs ought to be connected to VVPAT machines.

"We are asking that there is an EVM, there is VVPAT... At whatever point you press EVM, the printer will print a poll demonstrating a name and the decision of meeting image. The voter can take and check and store it in the polling station," he said.

The debate over EVMs has been proceeding since 2017 get together races in Uttar Pradesh, in which the BJP had won a broad triumph. The restriction claims - that the EVMs are changed to guarantee that all votes go to the BJP have proceeded regardless of the Election Commission's confirmations that the machines can't be altered and a test to hack into one.

In his blog on Monday, Union Minister Arun Jaitley stated: "Exit Polls depend on close to home meetings. The EVMs have no job. On the off chance that the aftereffects of the Exit Polls and ultimate outcomes on the 23rd May 2019 are a similar way, the Opposition's issue of the EVMs would likewise lose its non-existent method of reasoning."

Two days in front of the Lok Sabha survey results, top opposition parties will meet in Delhi on Tuesday to talk about the political circumstance and conceivable outcomes of a non-NDA partnership to stake guarantee for government development.

Top Congress pioneers additionally held a meeting under the direction of Sonia Gandhi on Saturday, where the current political circumstance was examined.

Sources said the resistance system was to get letters of help from different meetings and if there arise an occurrence of a hung decision, to display the equivalent before the president to stake guarantee to shape the legislature.

They included that the restriction did not have any desire to leave anything to the risk and did not wish to squander whenever in staking guarantee for government arrangement and along these lines, was putting its home altogether.

Despite the exit poll expectations, the resistance is proceeding with its procedure as most meetings have destroyed the estimate and guaranteed that the NDA would not get a more significant part in the Lok Sabha.

Opposition parties were referring to past precedents when exit polls were refuted.

Opposition parties will likewise meet the Election Commission (EC) and raise the issue of counting the paper trail of votes (VVPATs) with the electronic casting a ballot machine (EVM) figures as coordinated by the Supreme Court.


The opposition parties are requesting counting of VVPAT slips with EVM figures in a whole Assembly voting demographic if an inconsistency is found in any election.

The court has requested that the EC count the VVPAT slips with the EVM figures of five surveying stations in every Assembly body electorate the nation over, which may defer the outcomes.

As indicated by sources, leaders of opposition parties, for example, the Congress, TDP, Left Front, BSP, NCP, and TMC will casually meet on Tuesday to talk about the route forward if the NDA neglects to get to the more significant part mark.

Ahmed Patel and Ghulam Nabi Azad of the Congress, Sharad Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), TDP's Naidu, Satish Chandra Misra of the BSP, Sitaram Yechury of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), D Raja of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and Derek O'Brien of the TMC are relied upon to participate in Tuesday's meeting among others.