New Delhi: The Election Commission of India issued a strongly worded rebuke to Mallikarjun Kharge, the president of the Congress celebration, on Friday. The ECI criticized Kharge’s remarks concerning the launch of voter turnout knowledge, calling them inaccurate and biased. Commission stated that the statements have been intentionally supposed to sow confusion, misguide, and create obstacles to the sleek conduct of neutral elections.
ECI acknowledged that it finds a ‘sample’ in a sequence of previous and current irresponsible statements from INC and calls it ‘disconcerting”. The fee stated, with all information in place, the Congress President is trying to push a biased narrative.
It stated that the ECI was decided “to act against developments which have a direct impact on the delivery of its core mandate.” The fee takes cognizance of Kharge’s letter addressed to leaders of INDI alliance on voter turnout knowledge, and finds it extremely undesirable. The fee categorically rejected Kharge’s contentions, calling them insinuations and innuendos.
The ECI asserted that no lapse or deviation within the assortment and dissemination of voter turnout knowledge; pilots all previous and current procedures and practices; and supplied point-by-point counters to reject Kharge’s contentions.
The fee additionally refuted any delay in giving turnout knowledge and identified that up to date Turnout knowledge has been at all times greater than the ballot day. The fee supplied a factual matrix from the 2019 basic election onwards.
ECI particularly condemned with contempt Kharge’s assertion, “Could this be an attempt to doctor the final results”, and stated, it may possibly create an anarchic scenario, in addition to doubts and disharmony
On May 7, Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to the leaders of the INDIA bloc over the alleged discrepancies within the voting knowledge launched by the Election Commission (EC).
In his letter, Kharge urged the INDIA bloc leaders to lift their voices towards voting knowledge discrepancies, for “our only objective is to protect the culture of a vibrant democracy and the Constitution”. The Congress president alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party are ‘visibly flustered’ and ‘annoyed’ by the voting traits and their receding electoral fortunes within the first two phases.
“In this context, I would urge all of you that we must collectively, unitedly and unequivocally raise our voice against such discrepancies, for our only objective is to protect the culture of a vibrant democracy and the Constitution. Let us ensure the independence of the Election Commission of India and make it accountable. Let us ensure the independence of the Election Commission of India and make it accountable.,” the letter learn.
