A clutch of protesters from different organisations took to the streets on Friday morning to bring awareness to their demand for doing away with Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and bringing back paper ballots. The protest began at the August Kranti Maidan at Gowalia Tank where activist Firoze Mithiborwala highlighted the symbolism. "It was from here that Mahatma Gandhi issued the Quit India speech on August 8, 1942, decreeing that the British must leave India immediately."

"We say that EVMs must leave the country immediately. These machines can be tampered with. We need to go back to the paper ballot. This is vital as the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections will be held in October 2019," Mithiborwala said. Activist Jyoti Badekar said the group reached Mani Bhavan on Laburnum Road but was stopped from marching on foot on the designated route towards Shivaji Park. "The police stopped us, so we instead took public transport and reached the endpoint of our protest route at Shivaji Park and then a few metres on to Chaityabhoomi. There was heavy police presence barring us from accessing various spaces like the inside of Chaityabhoomi. We did not want to create trouble, simply wanted to pay our tribute while making our 'abolish EVM' point," she said.