Why this election fee can’t be truthful
Within the 2019 common elections, then election commissioner Ashok Lavasa, after investigating complaints in the course of the marketing campaign, pushed for motion in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Amit Shah for violating the MCC. Chief election commissioner Sunil Arora strongly opposed this. In the end, Lavasa needed to give up.
Throughout Rajiv Kumar’s tenure, allegations of electoral fraud turned so frequent that the credibility of election outcomes got here into query. Investigations by ADR revealed doubtful discrepancies between the variety of votes solid and votes counted, however the election fee brushed them apart as minor technical or human errors.
The mannequin code of conduct turned a joke, and its selective invocation a giveaway of the ECI’s predisposition. When BJP leaders made communally colored remarks to inflame and incite, when PM Modi himself made provocative statements like “Aapke mangalsutra le jayenge…”, “Aapki bhains le jayenge…” (they may take away your mangalsutras, they may take away your cattle), the ECI regarded the opposite manner.
The Opposition protested and filed complaints, which fell on deaf ears. As an alternative of reprimanding the prime minister, the ECI ignored its personal guidelines and served notices to the BJP president as a substitute.
Reviews surfaced on the manipulation of voter lists — together with each fraudulent additions and deletions — which swung outcomes in favour of the BJP. A Newslaundry investigation uncovered the suspicious deletion and addition of voters in constituencies the place the BJP gained by slender margins.
In the course of the Maharashtra meeting elections, it was discovered that 3.9 million new names had been added to the voter record in simply 5 months — between the Lok Sabha elections and the state elections — whereas solely 3.2 million had been added over the previous 5 years.
There have been cases of lots of of voters registered with the identical tackle. Related discoveries surfaced in the course of the Delhi meeting elections, concentrating on Dalit and minority voters perceived to be anti-BJP.
