BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi says the EVMs were ensuring a Congress victory.

Minutes after holding electronic voting machines (EVMs) responsible for the BJP's debacle in all three states Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh, the party on Thursday backtracked from its stand on the cause of loss.



Disappointed at the Assembly polls results BJP spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi had said that the EVM fraud was the reason for Congress' victory. He had alleged that the EVMs meant electronic victory machines for the Congress.



However, Naqvi was quick to retract his statement later saying that he did not mean he was talking particularly about the assembly polls in these three states.



Earlier in the day, BJP said electronic voting machines were electronic victory machines for the Congress as the key constituent of the UPA in the Centre raced ahead in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh where elections were held on October 13.



Reacting to the Congress onslaught, BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the EVMs were ensuring a Congress victory. "It is a sponsored victory for the Congress," he said.



Well within an hour of counting, the Congress was in a commanding position in Maharashtra with its ally the NCP. Earlier in the Lok Sabha polls, several parties had also alleged that EVMs could be rigged.