Fuelled by petrol and a passion to see Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) replaced by paper ballots in the upcoming Legislative Assembly elections in Maharashtra in October, a group of 'EVM hatao' yatris took off from Dadar to Nashik on Friday.

These eight 'yatris' who proceeded towards their destination in a car are public-minded individuals and activists who wanted to, "consolidate opinion and support for the necessity of doing away with EVMs for every election. The awareness that these machines can be manipulated and tampered with is there, the next step is consolidation," said Firoze Mithiborwala.