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Congress MP and Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025), accused the BJP of indulging successful the “biggest” enactment against the federation by committing ballot chori [theft] successful collusion with the Election Commission of India (ECI) to destruct the thought of India.
Mr. Gandhi, participating successful a treatment connected predetermination reforms successful the Lower House, claimed that the Narendra Modi authorities changed the instrumentality to springiness implicit immunity to the predetermination commissioners for their determination but added, “we are going to alteration the instrumentality and going to find you”.
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Describing Indian ideology arsenic the world’s top democracy, the Opposition person asked 3 questions, which, helium claimed made it wide that the BJP was “directing and using” the ECI to harm it.
As portion of his suggestions, Mr. Gandhi called for providing instrumentality readable elector database to each parties 1 period earlier elections, taking backmost the instrumentality that allowed demolition of CCTV footage aft 45 days of poll, giving entree to physics voting machines (EVMs) and quash the instrumentality that allowed the predetermination commissioners “to get distant with immoderate they privation to do”.
Calling the alleged ballot chori arsenic an enactment against the country, Mr. Gandhi said, “It is due to the fact that erstwhile you destruct the vote, you destruct the cloth of this country, you destruct modern India, you destruct the thought of India. Those crossed the aisle are doing ...”.
The elder Congress person besides asked wherefore the Chief Justice of India (CJI) was removed from the enactment sheet for the assignment of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and the Election Commissioners (ECs).
“I beryllium successful that room. It is simply a alleged antiauthoritarian decision. On 1 side, determination is Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. On the different side, the Leader of the Opposition. I person nary dependable successful that room. What they determine is what happens,” Mr. Gandhi said, adding, “So, wherefore are the Prime Minister and the Home Minister truthful keen connected choosing precisely who the predetermination commissioner is going to be”.
Talking astir the instrumentality that shields the ECs from being prosecuted for their decisions successful office, Mr. Gandhi said, “No Prime Minister has done this successful the past of India”.
“In December 2023, this authorities changed the instrumentality to marque definite that nary predetermination commissioner could beryllium punished for immoderate enactment they take,” helium said, adding, “They [ECs] mightiness beryllium nether the content that this instrumentality lets them get distant with it. Let maine punctual them: don’t worry, we are going to alteration the law, and that excessively retroactively. And we are going to travel and find you”.
Referring to an contented raised earlier successful a property league connected alleged ballot chori successful the Haryana Assembly elections, the Congress person said a Brazilian pistillate appeared 22 times connected the elector database portion different woman’s sanction featured implicit 200 times successful 1 constituency successful the State.
