ECI’s 14 objections get a ‘normal’ label
KTR asks the Supreme Court to examine reported dissent inside the Election Commission over voter-roll revision. The Court has not yet acted on the demand.
The ECI describes reported differences as routine checks; the Supreme Court has not yet acted on the demand for scrutiny.
The Election Commission has found a tidy phrase for reported internal objections over electoral-roll revision: “internal checks-and-balances are standard”. K. T. Rama Rao has asked the Supreme Court to examine the matter instead, saying the reports point to a “severe crisis of confidence” in the poll panel.
Reports said Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi objected at least 14 times in 10 months to decisions linked to the Special Intensive Revision, including changes involving voter additions and deletions, Form 6 and centralised electoral-roll data. Those objections are reported claims, not findings of unlawful conduct. The ECI says differing views are part of deliberations, its final decisions were unanimous and its actions complied with the law.
KTR said at Telangana Bhavan on September 23 that only the Supreme Court could investigate another constitutional body. The Court’s official material records its earlier Bihar SIR judgment and safeguards, but shows no confirmed suo motu case, notice or inquiry arising from his demand. For now, the BRS has asked for scrutiny; the ECI has supplied a phrase. The Court has supplied neither.