Chandigarh, July 17 - The Election Commission of India (ECI) has no plans to scrap the electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the country, Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi said here Friday.

'The EVMs used in India are foolproof. We (the ECI) are not thinking of scrapping the EVMs. There is no such planning,' Quraishi told media here after reviewing election preparations in Haryana for next year's assembly polls.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani and others had recently sought that the use of EVMs be stopped and that the Election Commission revert to the old method of getting votes cast on ballot papers.

The BJP leaders alleged the EVMs could be tampered with, and had cited the case of Germany where the EVMs were scrapped.

'It took us 25 years to develop these EVMs here. These are foolproof unlike the ones in Germany where a new card could be inserted within five minutes,' Quraishi said.

The election commissioner said that though some European countries, including Germany, were reverting to ballot papers for elections, they will come to see the EVMs developed in India one day.