Kollam (Keralam) | Keralam BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Saturday said reports of differences of opinion within the Election Commission do not indicate any wrongdoing, asserting that such differences were part of the democratic process.
He was replying to questions about the reports of differences within the three-member Election Commission over various decisions and instructions relating to electoral-roll revision, deletion and addition of names, changes to forms for new voters and access to voter data.
"When three persons are part of a panel, whether it is a panchayat, municipal committee, political organisation or a committee of three judges, won't there be different opinions and legal interpretations," Chandrasekhar asked.
"Just pointing this out and building a theory that something has happened here has no substance. If there is a discussion on it, there should be facts and substance," he said.
Chandrasekhar said there could be a debate on improving the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) procedure and making it more foolproof. "But that debate must be meaningful and fact-led," he said.
Taking a dig at the Congress, Chandrasekhar said the party was now claiming that it was being defeated because of SIR.
The party was defeated by the people because of corruption and developmental stagnation, Chandrasekhar said, alleging that its leader Rahul Gandhi has been going around for years with fraudulent statements.
Earlier in the day, in a post on 'X', Chandrasekhar alleged that Gandhi was "Indian politics' greatest creative fabricator." Since 2014, Gandhi and his family and some associates had been invested in spreading narratives that the Congress was losing elections due to rigging instead of acknowledging that corruption, appeasement and non-performance were the reasons for the party's repeated defeats, he alleged.
