How can Election Commission to gain credibility? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG6BrQXHs2I
The Indian Express Feb 5, 2025 Yogendra Yadav recounted the Election Commission's robust reputation in the 1990s and its current challenges, including gerrymandering in Assam, lack of transparency, and combative behavior towards opposition parties. Yadav emphasized the need for independent evidence to support claims of EVM manipulation and criticized the government's appointment procedures for election commissioners. He urged the Supreme Court to ensure a fair and non-partisan process for future appointments to maintain democratic integrity.
As CEC Rajiv Kumar retires, his legacy casts a dark cloud https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/yogendra-yadav-writes-as-cec-rajiv-kumar-retires-his-legacy-casts-a-dark-cloud-9815748/ Either the Supreme Court intervenes to ensure that the next CEC is chosen through a fairer system and can be trusted to display at least a modicum of fairness, neutrality and transparency. Or we could be headed towards an irreversible political crisis, as in our neighbourhood where election outcomes are routinely disputed... The current CEC played a role in the first clear instance of US-style communal “gerrymandering” (partisan drawing of electoral boundaries) in carrying out the delimitation of parliamentary and assembly constituencies in Assam, which happened to favour the BJP. He oversaw one of the rare and controversial “uncontested” parliamentary elections (Surat, 2024) in a non-conflict area. Under him, the ECI raised opacity to new heights by brazenly stonewalling information on turnout and discrepancy between votes polled and counted. Worse, the rule that mandated transparency was diluted.