POST POLL ANALYSIS

Congress workers protested in 36 countrywide locations against the ECI and the CEC Gyanesh Kumar, calling the betrayal of the Indian people by the constitutional body, “high treason”; Left parties also issued statements of protest.

Former -Bengal CM calls for pan-India protests against CEC Gyanesh Kumar and has demanded his arrest and accusing him of being "compromised" and working with the BJP.

In a hastily issued press release issued by P Pawan, Deputy Director of the Commission, the election body has attempted a rebuttal of the Indian Express investigation

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has demanded the resignation of the CEC Gyanesh Kumar and reform of the ECI

The Indian Express investigation exposing fissures within the ECI, with two Commissioners dissenting the moves by CEC Gyanesh Kumar over the past 10 months has generated a political storm: the Indian National Congress protested the anti-constitutional functioning of the ECI and demanded the CEC’s resignation

Reacting to today’s investigation in a national newspaper revealing how the decision-making processing at the ECI had been compromised, the senior politician has elaborated how and why the CEC Gyanesh Kumar has no moral grounds to stay in office