The ECI needs to respond to Rahul Gandhi’s accusations professionally and transparently. Else, it will end up giving him the ammunition he is desperately seeking.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
Gen Dwivedi framed Op Sindoor not just as retaliation to Pahalgam, but as demonstration of India’s capability to fight multi-domain conflicts with integration between services & agencies.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
It was a revelation that the EC under UPA had appointed Navin Chawla, a Congress stooge — and from the Congress he got money from the MP LAD funds for his so-called charity work.
It is pertinent to note that the then CEC (in 2009) had recommended to the President of India the removal of Chawla who was illegally further the interests of “one party”.
Needless to say, the press at that time chose to keep a deafening silence on this shocking state of affairs.
Even worse, a CEC, MS Gill after retirement as CEC joined the Congress party and even became a minister in the union cabinet!! Again, press and intellectual pseuds — the Khan Market Gang — maintained a studious silence over this and now they talk of “spirit” of democracy and what not!
It was a revelation that the ECI’s working is largely oral and that no record is kept of dissent. Inconsistent with its constitutional status and duties.
It was a revelation that the EC under UPA had appointed Navin Chawla, a Congress stooge — and from the Congress he got money from the MP LAD funds for his so-called charity work.
It is pertinent to note that the then CEC (in 2009) had recommended to the President of India the removal of Chawla who was illegally further the interests of “one party”.
Needless to say, the press at that time chose to keep a deafening silence on this shocking state of affairs.
Even worse, a CEC, MS Gill after retirement as CEC joined the Congress party and even became a minister in the union cabinet!! Again, press and intellectual pseuds — the Khan Market Gang — maintained a studious silence over this and now they talk of “spirit” of democracy and what not!
ECI is a Quasi Judicial Body and should build a culture of recording and making public dissent notes
It was a revelation that the ECI’s working is largely oral and that no record is kept of dissent. Inconsistent with its constitutional status and duties.