In what can be seen as the ECI details in the press conference today failed to convince the main Opposition party Congress , its leaders doubled down attack on the poll panel and accused it of gross incompetence in ‘purifying’ the electoral rolls, as claimed by it.
Minutes after the presser of Election Commission of India on SIR in BIhar as also on countering Congress' 'vote theft' charges, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh responded with a pun, saying it is for the first time 'new' ECI was speaking instead of "planted sources". CEC Gyanesh Kumar rejected claims of voter list manipulation and also described itself as an unbiased constitutional body, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh took to his social media handle on X and termed these remarks as ‘laughable’.The Rajya Sabha MP said, “The CEC answered none of the pointed questions raised by Shri. Rahul Gandhi meaningfully.”
Jairam Ramesh, Congress’s Communications in-charge, also took potshots at the ECI and satirically remarked, “This was the first time that the new ECI was speaking directly and not planting through sources”. His taunt was directed at the regular rebuttals issued by the EC sources lately, over repeated allegations by the opposition parties, including Rahul Gandhi.
"Today, the Election Commission of India held a press conference. This was the first time this 'new' ECI was speaking directly and not planting through sources," Jairam Ramesh wrote on 'X'.Referring to the press note released by ECI on August 16, Jairam Ramesh stressed that its main purpose was to place the responsibility of voter list correction on political parties and individuals. He noted that the press note was uniformly criticised by the political parties and the general public.
"Yesterday, the ECI released a press note, the purpose of which was to place the onus of voter list correction on political parties and individuals. This Press Note had also been met with uniform criticism from the opposition parties and widespread criticism from the general public," Ramesh's 'X' post said.
The Congress MP mentioned that Gyanesh Kumar's press briefing has come three days after the Supreme Court rejected ECI's argument to prevent the printing of 65 lakh deleted votes during the Bihar Special Intensive Revision."Today's Press Conference also came three days after the Supreme Court had rejected every single one of the arguments made by the ECI to prevent the publication of the 65 lakh deleted voters during the Bihar SIR.
Jairam Ramesh said that CEC didn't answer any of the questions asked by Rahul Gandhi "meaningfully". He stated that the ECI began to say that they make no distinction between the ruling and the opposition party after the INDIA bloc launched the Voter Adhikar Yatra from Bihar's Sasaram on Sunday.
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