A day after National Conference veteran and J&K CM Omar Abdullah rubbished Congress's allegations of EVM tampering, Abhishek Banerjee, an MP of another INDIA bloc partner, Trinamool Congress, on Monday dubbed the charges as "random" and without "substance".
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