Young Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Monday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been able to win in Gujarat Assembly elections only because of money and EVM tampering.

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Talking to reporters as trends showed BJP's win in the Assembly polls, the 24-year leader said, "There has been tampering in EVMs in Surat,Rajkot and Ahmedabad, hence the gap is very less wherever tampering happened. EVMs are hackable."

He also vowed to continue his "struggle" for the people of Gujarat.

As per the official trends provided by the Election Commission at 3:30 pm, the BJP has already bagged 46 seats while it is leading on 63 others. Congress has won in 42 Assembly constituencies while its candidates are leading on 35 other seats.

Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) convenor urged all opposition parties to take this concern against EVMs forward. 

"If ATMs can be hacked, why can’t the EVMs,” he repeated his earlier remarks. 

Patel also congratulated the BJP for the win in a sarcastic tone. 

“I congratulate the BJP which wins the elections by tampering with the EVMs,” he said. 

On Saturday, Patel had also questioned Supreme Court's decision to reject Congress' plea, seeking cross-verification of Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trails with votes cast with Electronic Voting Machines and asked why they were used in the Gujarat elections.

He had also said if EVMs were not tampered with then the exit polls' results, which showed BJPs’ victory, would be proven wrong.

Hardik Patel, who led the Patidar quota agitation last year, had extened his support to the Congress and had extensively campaigned against the ruling BJP.