DC Edit | EC Must Answer or Probe Rahul Posers on Vote Theft

Election Commission must confront Rahul Gandhi’s vote-theft allegations with transparency and action, not evasion.

xIt has been the consistent position of the Election Commission of India that it has the constitutional responsibility to protect the sanctity of the voters’ lists based on which elections to the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies are held. Even the Supreme Court has admitted this while hearing petitions challenging the special intensive revision of the voter lists in Bihar. Indeed, the law and the Constitution empower the EC to do what it takes in order to ensure that the lists have only bona fide voters in them. In short, the Election Commission is the author of the electoral rolls, but then, as it has the right to write them, it also has the job of defending th