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‘Election Commission involved in vote theft’: Rahul Gandhi repeats charge, now drops ‘atom bomb’ ahead of Bihar poll, also says ‘won’t spare you’
Rahul Gandhi, speaking outside the Lok Sabha on August 1, once again alleged that the EC is involved in vote theft. He claimed an independent investigation revealed serious misconduct linked to recent polls. This is a continuation of the leader of the Opposition (LoP)’s sustained campaign on the issue, in and before June 2025
Bihar’s untraceable electors spiral by 809% in just one day, ECI reports 1 lakh ‘missing’, 15 lakh Bihar voters yet to submit forms
Bihar's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls faces intense backlash, while 52 lakh deletions were flagged by July 22 by the controversial ECI, including 11,484 "untraceable" electors, this figure for "untraceable" voters shockingly surged to 1 lakh (an 809% jump) by July 23, with overall deletions hitting 56 lakh—a dramatic increase of 3 lakh in just 24 hours. Leader of the Opposition, RJD leader, Tejaswi Yadav threatens boycott of state polls
ECI to SC: Voter ID insufficient for Bihar roll, defends citizenship verification power
Bihar’s electoral roll crisis: ECI defends excluding Voter IDs for new entries and power to citizenship verification; ECI’s revision flags 52.3 Lakh (6.62%) electors not found at their addresses (including 18.6L deceased, 26L shifted, 7.5L multiple entries and 11K untraceable voters), amid concerns over disenfranchisement of genuine voters and procedural hurdles, opposition stages black-clad protests outside the Bihar assembly
Journalist Ajit Anjum booked for exposing Bihar’s SIR flaws
Senior journalist Ajit Anjum faces FIR in Balia, Bihar for exposing alleged voter list irregularities, he calls the FIR "a certificate for me as a journalist," vowing to continue reporting despite perceived intimidation tactics, Anjum said “I will not be scared. I will show only the truth”
Bihar: SC signals that ECI should consider Aadhaar, EPIC (Voter ID card) & Ration card for electoral roll revision
Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the sudden “special intensive revision” being conducted in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Supreme Court (SC) pressed ECI to include Aadhaar, Voter ID Card, and Ration cards in Bihar's electoral roll revision process, since the only concern for the constitutional body was establishing accurate identity not citizenship
SC: ECI’s ‘wisdom’ on revision of electoral rolls challenged, does a disenfranchisement crisis loom over Bihar, with thousands being declared ‘‘D’ (doubtful) voters?
The ECI's credibility, already under sharp public scrutiny post-Lok Sabha Elections 2024, is further strained by its Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) order of June 24, a controversial directive announced even after electoral rolls were finalised in January 2025: the move faces multiple judicial challenges before the Supreme Court. Hearings are scheduled before a vacation bench tomorrow, July 10
The Erased Record: A constitutional challenge to the election commission’s 45-day data destruction mandate
The unilateral directive by the ECI to destroy CCTV footage after 45 days transgresses both boundaries, conformity with existing laws and adherence to the Constitution. It is a quintessential "colourable exercise of power"—an action that, while ostensibly within the ECI's administrative domain, is in substance an encroachment upon the legislative field and an affront to constitutional principles
Principles of secret ballot, free will compromised, electronic surveillance a possibility with Voting APP introduced by the ECI: Expert
Veteran in computer science and architecture of unique software, Madhav Deshpande seriously questions the Voting APP introduced by the Bihar State Election Commission for local body polls; He alerts Indians to the possibility of electronic surveillance, the constitutional principles of free will and secret ballot being violated in the manner in which the constructed software is being stored
Bihar 2025 Election: EC drops parental birth document requirement for 4.96 crore electors and their children in Bihar
Amidst ongoing protest, opposition and debate surrounding the hastily announced revision process in Bihar, the Election Commission of India has now taken a step back; it has uploaded the 2003 Bihar electoral rolls, exempting 4.96 crore electors, and their children born after 1987, from submitting parental birth documents; individuals not on the 2003 list can still use its extracts for parental details, directly by the voters themselves
Bihar: Sinister move by ECI as ‘intensive’ revision of electoral roles set to exclude vast majority of legitimate voters
Usurping the powers to test ‘Indian citizenship’, powers that do not lie with the ECI, the latest move by CEC Gyanesh Kumar is not just unlawful and hasty but violative of the Indian Constitution and the Representation of Peoples Act, 1950 and the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960
After strong allegations by the TMC that ECI has transformed into the BJP’s “roll-rigging department”: TMC, ECI invites all parties for ‘deliberations’
TMC has strongly raised concerns over "ghost voters" and alleged BJP's collusion with the ECI to manipulate the voter list for the 2026 West Bengal Assembly Election, citing duplicate EPIC numbers and discrepancies in electoral roll. Weeks after the allegations were made in early March, on March 12, newspapers reported that the “ECI had invited all parties for discussions to strengthen the electoral process