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Election Commission's own software contains a lock written for one state, and only one - West Bengal.
An independent audit of the Commission's portal ECINET, reported by @htTweets has found a feature that can bar Electoral Registration Officers and Assistant EROs, only in West Bengal, from two critical functions:
🔹Reviewing voters' enumeration forms
🔹Viewing the notice and hearing dashboard
Officers in every other state have access to both. The audit found no such exclusion anywhere else in India.
The audit was carried out by the civic-tech initiative Charchagram. Its data scientist Saurav Rajput examined ECINET's publicly served code on October 2, 6, 7 and 9. The feature was still there in code fetched as recently as October 19.
In his words: West Bengal is separately hard-coded in the codebase & excluded from it (for ERO and AERO).
Understand what is at stake.
The enumeration form page holds each voter's details - name, voter ID, who submitted the form, the documents uploaded & the booth level officer's recommendation. It holds the ERO/AERO-Document & Hearing-Order files, along with the buttons to send a form back to the BLO or flag it.
The notice & hearing dashboard is where notices are tracked and hearings processed. It is where the decision is made about who stays on the roll and who is removed.
Under the law, the ERO is the officer responsible for preparing and revising the electoral roll. If ECINET can shut Bengal's EROs out of the forms & the hearings, the country has a right to know who would be reviewing them instead.
On September 24, the Election Commission told the country that ECINET is a decentralised platform and that nobody else can perform their statutory function on ECINet, including any other officer of ECI.
If only EROs and AEROs can perform these functions, and the code can bar Bengal's EROs and AEROs from the forms and the hearings, then the Commission's two claims cannot both stand.
Now look at the timeline -
🔹September 26: After two Election Commissioners raised objections, the Commission set up a committee to examine whether ECINET complies with the law, following complaints that control of electoral rolls had been centralised.
🔹September 28: Bengal exception has existed in the code at least since this date.
🔹October 16: A new build of the app is introduced. Bengal exception is still in it.
🔹October 19: The exception is still present in the live code.
While the Commission said it was examining whether its system had been centralised, the code continued to treat one state differently from every other.
When Hindustan Times sent the Election Commission a questionnaire, it did not respond.
Nation demands-
🔹Explain why ECINET's code contains a West Bengal-only exclusion for EROs and AEROs.
🔹Name who ordered this code to be written & when.
🔹Disclose whether this restriction has ever been switched on, in which constituencies, and for how long.
🔹Reveal who reviewed Bengal's enumeration forms and hearings during any period the restriction was active.
🔹Publish ECINET's access rules and access logs, and place the portal before an independent technical audit with the findings made public.
Code does not write itself. A hard coded exception for one state is a deliberate choice & someone made it. The Election Commission must tell nation who made that choice & why.
From Karnataka's "dead" voters to Delhi's "untraceable" citizens & now a Bengal only exception in the Commission's own software, the same question keeps coming up: who is really in control of India's voter rolls?
The vote belongs to the people, not to whoever controls the code.
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Indian stock market is the only market in this world that is falling because investors got to know that finance minister has zero knowledge about finance and economics and PM doesn't even care to remove her.
AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STATEMENT FOR FREE MARKETS & CAPITAL RIGHTS! 🚨
"People are exiting easily" - what on earth does that even mean? Exiting an investment with your own capital is the fundamental right of every sovereign investor!
Let's decode the terrifying undertone of this logic:
BLAMING LIQUIDITY & FREEDOM: When global investors sell and move capital, the government blames "easy exits" and "excess liquidity" instead of addressing crushing capital gains taxes (LTCG/STCG hike), skyrocketing STT (+51.6% YoY), and $33+ Billion in FII capital outflows!
"A bird doesn't fly away because the cage door was left easy to open; it flies away because the cage offers no food."
If the state starts viewing market liquidity and free exit as a structural flaw, what's next? Capital controls? Exit taxes? Lock-in periods for retail investors?
You cannot milk investors with record STT and capital gains taxes and then complain when they exercise their basic right to withdraw their capital!
PROTECT FREE CAPITAL & INVESTOR RIGHTS.
I have been paying income tax for more than 2 decades.
Income tax department has never verified if I actually exist.
May be, IT should also conduct a faulty SIR and drop me from the taxpayer list, just like EC did.
I wouldn't mind keeping that tax money to myself.
What kind of mental torture is this!!!
How much should people of karnataka should go through ?? What kind of cheap politics you guys are doing ?? @Tejasvi_Surya
Bengaluru pays so much tax and still gets treatment like this . Delay all the important projects deliberately and show up before elections for inaugurations .Loot tax from here, do development in north india,These idiots think people will keep suffering silently and vote for them again. Absolutely shameless! @BJP4India@BJP4Karnataka@NHAI_Official@NHAIROBengaluru@ChristinMP_@DeccanHerald@TVMohandasPai@kiranshaw
> Musk takes on Ambani.
> Ambani stays quiet.
> Rubio visits Ambani and skips New Delhi.
> RIL puts up a post welcoming Starlink.
> Musk replies and appreciates it.
In all probability, Starlink will soon get approval in India.
Please connect the dots and you will understand how this nation is being run and by whom.
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