New DelhiJun 24, 2025 16:34 IST
First revealed on: Jun 24, 2025 at 16:25 IST
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Following his current allegations relating to the conduct of the 2024 Maharashtra Meeting elections, the Election Fee of India (ECI) has written to Lok Sabha Chief of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, inviting him to fulfill the three-member panel to debate any “points”, whereas reiterating that the polls are carried out as per electoral legal guidelines. The Congress mentioned it might ship an acceptable response to the letter inside a day or two.
Citing Gandhi’s opinion piece in The Indian Categorical on June 7, during which he raised questions in regards to the electoral rolls, voter turnout knowledge and the discharge of CCTV footage of polls, the EC wrote to him on June 12.
“…related points had been raised by the Indian Nationwide Congress (INC) after the meeting elections in November 2024. The Fee had given an in depth reply to the INC on twenty fourth December 2024…All elections are performed by the Election Fee of India strictly as per electoral legal guidelines handed by Parliament, guidelines made therein and directions issued by the ECI occasionally,” the EC wrote to Gandhi.
It added that the elections are performed in a decentralised method on the stage of Meeting constituencies. Within the case of Maharashtra, the EC mentioned it had appointed 1,00,186 booth-level officers, 288 electoral registration officers, 139 normal observers, 41 police observers, 71 expenditure observers and 288 returning officers. As well as, political events appointed 1,08,026 of their booth-level brokers, of which 28,421 had been of the Congress.
“We presume that any concern relating to conduct of elections would have already got been raised via election petitions filed within the competent court docket of legislation by the INC candidates. Nonetheless, for those who nonetheless have any points, you might be welcome to jot down to us and the Fee can also be keen to fulfill you in particular person at a mutually handy date and time to debate all points,” the EC wrote.
In his opinion piece, Gandhi had reiterated his earlier allegations of “bogus” voters being added to the electoral rolls forward of the 2024 Maharashtra Meeting elections and alleged “match-fixing”.
Chatting with The Indian Categorical on Tuesday, Congress chief and member of the eight-member Empowered Motion Group of Leaders and Consultants (EAGLE) Praveen Chakravarty mentioned that the Congress will ship an acceptable response to the letter inside a day or two.
“There was a letter written by a secretary within the secretariat of within the Election Fee of India to the LOP. This was earlier than the crash of the Air India flight in Ahmedabad. The letter is being reviewed and the suitable individuals throughout the social gathering might be responding in precisely a day or two. There’s a assembly of the EAGLE committee on Wednesday and a press briefing might be held by us,” mentioned Chakravarty.
The eight-member EAGLE was constituted by the Congress in February this 12 months to maintain a “fowl’s eye view” of elections within the nation and “monitor the conduct of free and honest elections by the Election Fee of India”. The EAGLE experiences to Lok Sabha Chief of Opposition Rahul Gandhi.