'How can the EC then deduce that 76 per cent of the people who voted for the united Shiv Sena's MLAs voted for Eknath Shinde?' 'EC's percentage formula is tricky' - Rediff.com India News
Constitutional expert and former secretary general of the Lok Sabha P D T Achary tells Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com that though the Election Commission had a precedence in the Sadiq Ali case of 1969 which ruled in favour of Indira Gandhi and which was later also upheld by the Supreme Court of India, the EC's calculation of percentages to decide in favour of the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena is tricky.
18/02/2023
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