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The agitation against the ECI is aimed at covering up Rahul Gandhi’s failures, he says

The Election Commission of India has responded to the INDIA bloc’s protest in Delhi, saying the Opposition’s request for a meeting outside the Commission’s headquarters was unusual and could not be accepted under established procedures.

The move comes hours after Delhi Police detained around 260 INDIA bloc protesters, including 10 MPs, during a demonstration demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation

The EC needs to provide answers on who changed Form 6, and who authorised the false claim with reference to the Supreme Court, CPI general secretary says

The Bench said the decisions of the Election Commission have to be either unanimous or by majority and that it presumed that this is how all decisions were taken

The march added to the campaign that Opposition parties have run against the Election Commission over the SIR and the working of the panel

BJP Telangana president N. Ramchander Rao said decisions to delete voters’ names follow field-level verification, and criticised Congress and AIMIM’s allegations against the Election Commission

Congress leader Sachin Pilot alleged the SIR is being used to selectively delete voters, as he also criticised the Rajasthan government’s drought response and the AAP government in Punjab

Functionaries said this week teams from the EC will visit Goa, followed by Uttarakhand next week. The EC officials will also visit Punjab and then Manipur in coming weeks.

Shivraj Chouhan accuses Kharge of attacking constitutional institutions; defends appointment process of Election Commissioners and reliability of EVMS 

The actor-activist demands constitution of Election Commission to be reverted

A major controversy erupted when T.N. Seshan went to court challenging the appointment of two Election Commissioners; N. Gopalaswami’s suo motu recommendation to the President for the removal of Navin Chawla was another shocking episode

He said this during a Jan Sunwai (public hearing) in Patna on the issue of wrongful SIR deletions in Bihar. The hearing was based on the findings of a voter verification survey conducted by the party in ten assembly constituencies. 

The court noted that the Election Commission has frozen the symbol, and therefore the larger issue as to who is entitled to the amount is pending adjudication

Given that the Election Commission has publicly provided this clarification, why does the Congress leadership insist on retaining the names of deceased individuals in the electoral rolls, says BJP leader Smriti Irani

An official in the State poll body said S. Chockalingam made the request to the Election Commission of India in a letter sent on September 24

BJP State spokesperson Jalli Madhusudhan says the revision only removes dead and shifted voters, and that the Leader of the Opposition’s attacks on the Election Commission do not befit his office

The bloc demanded the repeal of the MMDR Amendment Act, 2026, and the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, after protesters clashed with police near the Chief Minister’s residence

The Kalaburagi district unit of the Congress on Monday staged a protest outside the Deputy Commissioner’s office here, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging that the Election Commission was functioning with clear political bias

APCC leaders seek disclosure of file notings and legal basis for electoral-roll changes; demand ECINET security audit and suspension of SIR process

The BJP said Rahul Gandhi and Opposition leaders were conspiring to malign the country’s constitutional institutions and the Election Commission has already issued a fact-based clarification of “fabricated allegations”

Left parties, Congress, YSRCP and civil society groups allege large-scale deletion of voters’ names and call for restoration of names and reforms in the Election Commission

CPI(M) general secretary seeks wider Opposition coordination against SIR and invites AAP leader to join protests against alleged misuse of Central agencies in Keralam

Under the changes, Form 6 declarations will be required only during SIR, while the previous format governs fresh registrations; BLOs will visit homes to collect documents for those flagged with discrepancies or not mapped, rather than issuing notices of hearings

BJP leader says Opposition should not contest elections if it believes the electoral system is rigged

The chief of the Mamata Trinamool Congress is one of the first leaders to respond to CPI(M) general secretary M.A. Baby’s appeal for a broader Opposition consultation on issues surrounding the EC

According to a newspaper report, Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had formally objected at least 14 times over the past 10 months to decisions and orders of the CEC Gyanesh Kumar.

BJP leader Sudhanshu Trivedi asked whether there was any evidence that decisions by the Election Commission of India had not been taken unanimously

At a press conference, he points out that as law-abiding citizens one would not commit such an extreme act; he says Election Commission has turned into an arm of the BJP and that Gyanesh Kumar should have some shame