Election Commission
National News: Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi held a press conference and a rally in Karnataka and made serious allegations against the Election Commission and asked 5 questions. Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Election Commission is not giving the digital voter list to the opposition, CCTV footage is being deleted, fake voting is taking place, opposition leaders are being threatened and the Commission has become an "agent" of the BJP. Now the Election Commission has answered Rahul's questions.
1. Why is the opposition not getting the digital voter list? What are you hiding?
2. Why are CCTV and video evidences being destroyed? On whose orders?
The Election Commission called Rahul Gandhi's allegations "baseless and a rehash of the same old script". The commission said
In 2018, the Congress tried to mislead the Supreme Court by submitting documents from a private website to show that the voter list contained errors, to the extent that the same face was repeated for 36 voters. Whereas in fact, these errors had already been corrected about 4 months ago and a copy of the same was also given to that party. On this basis, the voter list was demanded to be given in searchable PDF format. The Supreme Court rejected this petition of Congress leader Kamal Nath.
Now, in the year 2025, knowing that the same trick cannot be repeated in court, they tried to mislead the public by claiming that there were irregularities in the voter list — like the same name being registered in different places. In fact, the name of Aditya Shrivastava, who was alleged to be registered in three different states, had been corrected months earlier.
The Kamal Nath judgement has made a permanent position clear regarding machine-readable documents, and raising the same issue again and again shows that Rahul Gandhi has no respect for the judgements of the Supreme Court of India.
The law provides a specific procedure for both filing objections and appeals to the voter list. Instead of following these legal procedures, they tried to sensationalise the issue by making baseless claims in the media. It is an established principle that if the law directs a thing to be done in a particular manner, it must be done in that manner and not in any other manner.
Therefore, if Rahul Gandhi believes in his analysis and finds the allegations levelled against Election Commission of India (ECI) to be true, he should either sign the declaration respecting the law or apologise to the nation for making baseless allegations against the Election Commission.
This war of words between Rahul Gandhi and the Election Commission has become a major political issue in the election environment. Congress says that questioning the impartiality of the Election Commission is necessary to protect democracy, while the Commission claims that all processes are being conducted in a transparent and lawful manner.
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