The Election Fee should clarify this tearing hurry to alter the principles

Paradoxically, chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar claimed on 10 June 2025 that the method of making ready the electoral roll in India is among the many “most rigorous and clear” on the earth.

He was delivering the keynote tackle on the Stockholm Worldwide Convention on ‘Electoral Integrity’, organised by the Worldwide Institute for Democracy and Electoral Help (Worldwide-IDEA), in Sweden. The occasion was attended by representatives of election administration our bodies of round 50 nations.

If the method is certainly so sturdy and clear because the ECI and the CECs have repeatedly claimed in recent times, there certainly would have been no want for amending Rule 93 and limiting public entry to its data?

Barely three days earlier than the CEC was making that declare in Sweden, the Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi had questioned the ECI on ‘transparency’ in his op-ed within the Indian Categorical.

Writing on ‘match fixing’ in Maharashtra, that is what the LOP wrote:

‘The EC… summarily dismissed requests to make out there voter rolls with images for the 2024 Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections… even worse, just one month after the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha elections, and following a Excessive Court docket order directing the EC to share videography and CCTV footage of voting in a polling station, the central authorities — after consulting the EC — amended the 1961 Conduct of Election Guidelines Part 93(2)(a) to limit entry to CCTV footage and digital data.’

‘The modification itself, and its timing, are each giveaways,’ he concluded.