The Congress party has raised concerns about the independence of the Election Commission of India (ECI). This follows a report from the Indian Express, which revealed that two election commissioners expressed objections to several ECI decisions that were allegedly made without their knowledge. The party’s allegations suggest a potential compromise in the ECI’s impartiality, prompting further scrutiny of its operations.
“Vote chori is a crime against the Indian people and a direct attack on our constitution,” Rahul Gandhi said
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi led the charge with his opening attack that set the path open for the rest of the Opposition party’s leaders to punch through. “Vote chori is a crime against the Indian people and a direct attack on our constitution. The BJP, RSS and EC who organised it have committed an act of treason. Justice will be served,” he wrote in a post on X. “Your time will come. The Congress and other Opposition parties have been alleging that the ECI’s voter roll cleanup exercise, Special Intensive Revision (SIR), was a sophisticated process to exclude voters for the BJP’s gain.
The Congress MP also shared a 15-second video in which he is seen telling the Election Commission and its officers that what they have been doing was wrong.
You cannot get away,” he said. This latest report on the ECI has opened a new and much more volatile front in the long battle between the Opposition and the ruling BJP over the SIR, to the extent that Congress leader Manish Tewari today alleged there could be an “invisible hand” running the ECI.
