Bhubaneswar, June 14 -- After All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), a Congress leader has also hit out at the Bengal government over fire that gutted around 4,000 EVMs stored in a government building in Kolkata.

Odisha Congress President Bhakta Charan Das alleged a conspiracy and said people should understand "why EVMs were burnt".

He alleged that Bengal government burnt 4000 EVMs. "The people of the country ought to understand, and indeed everyone does understand, why they were burnt. What was the need to burn them? They could have simply abandoned them. If EVM have become so flawed, then switch to paper ballots... then the truth will come to light," he said.

TMC had ealier hit out at the Election Commission of India (ECI) after a massi...