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RJD's Tejaswi Yadav said that this is a conspiracy to snatch the votes of the poor. AIMIM's Owaisi called it 'backdoor NRC' because documents are needed for this. TMC's Sagarika Ghosh and journalist Ravish Kumar are also calling it suspicious.

Sources within the Election Commission of India (ECI) have clarified that the Indian National Congress' (INC) ongoing demand for machine-readable, digital copies of electoral rolls is "not legally tenable" and has already been conclusively settled by the Supreme Court.

The bye-polls to five Assembly Constituencies held by the Election Commission of India today witnessed successful implementation of several major new initiatives launched by the ECI in the past four months

Citing the example of the Maharashtra elections, Rahul Gandhi claimed that there was an addition of 65 lakh voters to the turnout lin two hours, which is impossible.

The Election Commission pointed out that the disgraced cop Ranjeet Kasale was not part of any election duty in the 2024 Maharashtra polls and was instead posted at the Beed Cyber Police Station.

"The Commission has decided to ensure allotment of unique EPIC number to registered electors. Any case of duplicate EPIC number will be rectified by allotting a unique EPIC number. The ERONET 2.0 platform will be updated to aid and assist in this process." ECI stated.

He categorically named TN Seshan to glorify the CEC appointed by the Congress government and claimed that "no one called Seshan a 'Congress Man'".

The real concern, however, is that one of the funders of IFES is Open Society Foundations (OSF), which is owned by George Soros. Notably, Soros has been involved in funding anti-India activities for a long time.

The real concern arises with IFES’s private funders, which include Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Open Society Foundations (OSF). Notably, OSF is owned by George Soros, a figure widely accused of funding anti-India activities.

While the Supreme Court is hearing a petition seeking to include the CJI in the selection committee for Election Commission, vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday questioned how the judiciary can be involved in executive appointments