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As the ruling Congress successful Karnataka flayed the survey which said 83.61% of respondents expressed their spot successful EVMs and the electoral process during the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections successful Karnataka, sources said the relation of GRAAM, the NGO that conducted the survey, was strictly constricted to conducting it, successful accordance with the presumption of reference, methodology, and ethical standards prescribed successful the presumption of notation issued by the Karnataka Monitoring and Evaluation Authority (KMEA), a State authorities bureau nether the Department of Planning, Programme Monitoring and Statistics.
The survey was commissioned by Karnataka’s Chief Electoral Office (CEO) done KMEA, and GRAAM, Mysuru-based NGO, bagged the task done a bidding process, having scored a precocious method people by a committee of experts constituted by KMEA, said sources.
The study has since kicked up a governmental storm, with the BJP highlighting it to assertion it demolishes Congress’s disapproval of EC, portion the Congress has said saffron’s party’s speechmaking of the study was politically motivated and factually incorrect.
The GRAAM conducted the survey named “Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Evaluation of Endline Survey of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of Citizens”, wherever it said 83.61% of respondents who voted successful the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections successful Karnataka person shown a beardown level of nationalist trust in the electoral process and EVMs.
With respect to Dr R Balasubramaniam’s sanction mentioned by immoderate Congress leaders, sources said that helium is the laminitis of the organisation but has held nary presumption oregon been progressive with GRAAM successful immoderate capableness for respective years now. Any effort to property governmental motives connected GRAAMs’ enactment is factually incorrect, added the source. GRAAM has done assorted studies for the State Government done KMEA (earlier known arsenic KEA) and different departments arsenic well. It assisted successful processing imaginativeness documents and argumentation documents astatine antithetic regimes, including the accelerated appraisal of Annabhagya successful June 2014 and Nava Karnataka Vision 2025 (skill improvement and agrarian improvement sectors), to sanction a few, sources said.
