Independent directors in public sector companies are political appointees. Since the autonomy of these directors can be questioned, especially in the two companies that manufacture electronic voting machines (EVMs), Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), the integrity of the country's voting system has been severely compromised, argues Dr E A S Sarma, retired bureaucrat and social activist, in an interview with Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
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Link of the recording of the 70-minute deposition on 14 February 2022 by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta to the Supreme Court-appointed committee headed by Justice (retired) R V Raveendran on allegations of misuse of the Israeli Pegasus spyware on Indian citizens: https://pegasus-india-investigation.in/depositions/paranjoy-guha-thakurta-statement/