http://www.reporters-collective.in ECI’s internal records of 2024 elections show that on 51 seats in Maharashtra, Haryana and J&K, votes counted differed from votes cast by citizens. In some seats, the votes counted from EVMs mismatched the votes cast by lakhs. While in 19 of the seats, the ECI did not even record the number of votes… Read More Exclusive: The Mismatch in 2024 Election Votes
Yogendra Yadav No one expected Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar to resign after the massive INDIA bloc rally this Sunday. Yet, despite the churlish debate over how many attended the rally, the protest has achieved more than anyone expected. At the same time, this success places greater responsibility on everyone involved in this month-long… Read More The anti-SIR and anti-CEC agitation is now set to become a pro-democracy movement
Modi posted: “MLC elections in 28 seats across four big states — Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and Karnataka. Elections held using ballot papers. Guess how many seats Congress won?” A monocled emoji at the end of the post emphasised his sarcasm suggesting that this was the obvious conclusion after a close examination of the results.… Read More PM, Shah Rush To Discredit INDIA Vote-theft Campaign
NB: This is a shameless assault on the most fundamental guarantee of the Indian Constitution, and if the Supreme Court cannot see it as such, we are free to draw the most sinister conclusion. This is the centenary of the RSS; and this, is the clearest evidence of what they wish for as their utopia.… Read More Special Intensive Revision (SIR, 2025-26) is a brazen assault on India’s universal adult franchise
http://www.reporters-collective.in Fake Voters in thousands were injected into the Pilibhit voter roll in Uttar Pradesh. When caught, the ECI accepted the fraud.We found, it hasn’t yet removed all the fake voters and brought back the legitimate citizens to the roll. In 55 booths of Pilibhit we had found 2,691 fake voters. When we rechecked yesterday… Read More The All-India Fake Voter Playbook
To online partisans of Opposition parties who see the hidden hand of the Aam Aadmi Party or the BJP in the CJP’s successful mobilisations, if the suppression of Jantar Mantar 2.0 doesn’t discredit your conspiratorial daftness, you’re probably immune to lived experience. Mukul Kesavan Jantar Mantar 2.0 will spur pundits to think of the electoral… Read More Help at hand: The struggle against electoral Inquisition will be long and hard
http://www.reporters-collective.in Have you submitted documents during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process to retain your name on the electoral roll? Well, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has now introduced a new process in Delhi that allows voters to establish their eligibility without submitting any documents. The ECI is forcing booth level officers (BLOs) to… Read More Election Commission forcing BLOs to verify without documents
http://www.reporters-collective.in The Mysterious 16.18 Lakh Voters Added to Uttar Pradesh’s Roll Uttar Pradesh is six months away from its assembly elections, so it is time to pull back the curtain on last year’s shadowy special intensive revision, and what it did to the state’s voter rolls. India’s self-incubated East India Company News reports in January… Read More The Mysterious 16.18 Lakh Voters Added to Uttar Pradesh’s Roll
The latest investigation by The Indian Express found that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had formally objected at least 14 times over ten months to decisions concerning voter registration, deletions and the centralisation of the voter database.…Over the past decade, the ECI has been criticised for allowing the Bharatiya Janata Party to… Read More Cheques and imbalances: the taming of the Election Commission of India (2024)
I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching, but it came as the New…. Bertolt Brecht Dear readers, in a note to an earlier post, Electoral Inquisition, I mentioned the outstanding features of our ruling establishment: it uses democracy to destroy democracy it demands eternal power in the name of the people… Read More India’s self-incubated East India Company
