Mamata Banerjee sounds alert on EVM tampering

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has put her party on guard against “mischief” in the EVMs to be used in the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal. “EVMs may be tampered with. Our party organisers should be trained about the VVPAT machines,” Banerjee said, urging party leaders to form a team in each district that will monitor Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines.The TMC chief has formed a central team comprising MPs Saugata Roy and Dinesh Trivedi and parliamentary minister Partha Chatterjee to impart training. “These three people will train the district teams in sessions to be conducted at Trinamool Bhavan from 3pm to 5pm,” she said.