Union Minister Ravi Shankar about EVM hacking

New Delhi, January 22: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has fired that the Congress had organized the EVM hackathon in London in which a cyber expert claimed that the 2014 general elections were rigged.He said here on Tuesday.

Coming to details, The event was sponsored by the Congress, Mr. Prasad said at a press conference in New Delhi.

An Indian cyber expert, seeking political asylum in the US, on Monday claimed the 2014 general election was “rigged” through the electronic voting machines, which, he said can be hacked. “We will expose this claim,” Mr. Prasad said, adding that the Congress was insulting the 2014 mandate.


Speaking to the media here, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad questioned Congress leader Kapil Sibal s presence at the London event on Monday where the expert, Syed Shuja, made the sensational claim.

"What was Sibal doing there? We would like to know in what capacity was he present at the event. I believe he was there on behalf of the Congress party.

Mr. Shuja said the BJP would have won Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh elections if his team hadn’t intercepted the BJP attempts to hack the transmissions in these States.

"In 2014, the UPA was in power, not us. Where is the logic in accusing us of hacking the EVMs when we were not even in power?" he asked.