The Election Commission which was actually watching the press conference held by Rahul Gandhi has summarily dismissed the charges made as "misleading". Rahul Gandhi in his address has cited specific cases with names and images of the voting records. These were based, as mentioned in the press conference, on the very data that the ECI has given. So if the data that the ECI themselves gave to INC can be analysed to show that there was duplicate voting, false voter enrollment and multiple votes by the same person, how exactly are these claims 'misleading? The ECI needs to come forth with a similar press conference and make a point by point rebuttal of the analysis presented. They need to show how 80 people were living at the same address in a one-room kitchen house and where those 80 people are now. The onus of proving that the elections have been free and fair is on the ECI. It is extremely worrying for Indian democracy when a constitutional body is aiding and abetting malfeasance so that the BJP can win every poll.
