India’s Election Commission faces unprecedented scrutiny over rigging allegations

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New Delhi: The Election Commission of India, which has long been considered as the neutral patron of the world’s largest democracy, has faced unprecedented criticism with allegations of its reputation and freedom.

Opposition leaders and critics have alleged that massive rigging in the elections is affecting the overall voting results. The ECI has denied all the allegations, which is against it in the history of India.

The allegation is headed by the opposition in New Delhi’s parliament, the Congress party’s Rahul Gandhi, who had earlier alleged that India’s electronic voting machines were poor.

Now Gandhi has accused the ECI of refusing to distribute digital voters ‘records, and detailing that his supporters have a list of their supporters’ mistakes after competing in the piles of the entry lists.

Fake votes

Gandhi, 55, said his party lost dozens of seats in the 2024 parliamentary elections due to rigging in the vote.

The biggest democratic exercise in human history of 1.4 billion people across the country was surprised in six weeks.

Gandhi has claimed that the ECI manipulated in voter rolls in favor of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

74 -year -old Modi won a historic third term last year but was less than the majority.

According to Gandhi, the alleged fraud involved a series of tactics.

He said some people voted several times, citing bulk registration from a residence and seemingly fake addresses.

In a offer to the reporters on August 7, Gandhi pointed to a parliamentary constituency that it was lost as a “open and closed” example of alleged irregularities.

He said more than 100,000 “fake” votes were cast in this constituency, he called the duplicate voters’ courtesy.

His Congress party lost the seat by more than 30,000 votes.

Gandhi said, “Our demand from the ECI is clear – be transparent and let the digital voters roll so that people and parties can audit them.”

ECI denies allegations

The ECI has termed Gandhi’s accusation “false and misleading”.

The Chief Election Commissioner of India said that he would not back down from his constitutional duties.

Ganesh Kumar told a news conference this month, “Using the Politics Election Commission … is being used as a target to target Indian voters.”

“The Election Commission wants to make it clear that it stands by all the voters with fear […] They will continue to do so without discrimination. “

Kumar also said that those accused of fraud need to either present evidence or apologize under the oath.

“It is necessary to submit an affidavit or apologize to the nation – there is no third option.”

The final conspiracy

On August 17, Gandhi launched a month -long “voter rights” rally in Bihar, the main battlefield of the war, which received enthusiastic public reaction.

The allegations came before the elections in Bihar in October or November. The opposition alleged that the ECI had begun a “massive voting” practice, when it gave voters only weeks to prove their citizenship in the state, which requires documents that have many people in the registration recovery.

The Indian High Court took steps last week, allowing most residents to accept Bihar voters’ registration.

The “special highlight” (head) of voter registration will be copied all over India.

Gandhi called the exercise a “final conspiracy” in Bihar.

Workers have reported several living voters dead by election officials, and the whole families have eliminated the list of drafts. Voters’ verification in Bihar is scheduled to be completed by September 25, with a final list released five days later.

“Their purpose is to steal elections by adding new voters to the head of the head and eliminating existing voters,” Gandhi said.

The ECI defended the revision of registration, saying it is partly to avoid voting for “foreign illegal immigrants”.

Modi’s BJP members have long claimed that a large number of non -documentary Muslim immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh have entered into India’s electoral rolls.

The ECI criticized the Bihar machine -readable voter records with scanned image files.

Critics said these changes made more time to find out the irregularities, demanding more time and mistakes.