The Election Commission has said in an all-party meeting amid allegations of disturbances in electronic voting machines in India that soon all political parties will be given the challenge of EVM tempering.

In an all-party meeting on Friday, the Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi said that in the EVMs used in the recently concluded assembly elections to prove the challenge of tampering, in addition to it is also opportunity to prove the parties that tampering is possible in EVM of the Election Commission.

After the Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati had accused tampering of EVM.

Meanwhile, Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party's senior leader Manish Sisodia tweeted that "the Election Commission refused to ban 'hackathon'.

Manish Sisodia has written, "I told the Election Commission that if we give the machine used in the last election, we will show it by tamper, but the commission has not yet accepted it. Hackathon means that let's show our EVM tamper. While the Election Commission will give the challenge to prove the machine tempering in the last election."

After the assembly elections in five states, many parties including the Samajwadi Party had demanded its investigation.

The Aam Aadmi Party accused the mess and its MLA, Saurabh Bhardwaj, had recently showed a demo in the Delhi Assembly claiming that tampering in the EVM is possible.

However, he gave this demo on a machine like EVM which was rejected by the Election Commission.

In an all-party meeting on Friday, seven national parties and 35 regional parties participated.

The Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi said in the meeting that the allegations of disturbance in EVM are baseless. He informed the representatives of political parties that how has been safe the EVM of the Election Commission.

He said that he would welcome the advice of political parties to improve this.

Nasim Zaidi said that the use of VVPAT will be ensured in the forthcoming assembly elections.

The Chief Election Commissioner said that the Commission keeps distance from all the political parties and does not have any favorite party.

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