The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has hit back at the Congress’s fresh allegations of vote theft in the wake of what reports suggest were repeated objections by the two election commissioners to decisions made by the Election Commission of India.
Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had “objected on record” to multiple decisions taken by the poll body without their knowledge, the Indian Express reported Wednesday. Mounting an attack on the BJP, the Congress alleged that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is acting like a “dictator” and engaging in “vote theft” to please the ruling party.
What do we gather from this? The BJP did not go and plant a story in the media saying that there had been official deliberations among them. Citing the figure, the opposition party alleged that in the three-member ECI, only Kumar takes final calls.
The report stated the election commissioners had objected to the ECI’s decisions 14 times over 10 months.
Read: “Unanimous Decisions Of Full Commission”: Election Body On ‘Dissent’ Report “This is an official deliberation among the three election commissioners. Such deliberations are actually a sign of a healthy democracy,” he said.
