The Election Commission has filed its reply in the Supreme Court to the petition on how the three-member Commission functions.
27 pages, approved by all three members. Its argument: every decision was unanimous, and a Commissioner’s note is a “suggestion,” not a decision.
Here’s what it addresses, and what it doesn’t.
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But I'm sorry to say I've been receiving similar messages from you for 7 days now but no progress. I'd great expections.
🚨BREAKING : Now THIS is spine 🔥✊
Neha Bora, a day after the Delhi High Court dismissed their plea:
> "We will not sign this peace bond."
> "Signing it would mean this bond can be used to stop any peaceful, democratic protest in this country."
> "AISA's signature will not be on the normalisation of this."
> "Is not asking questions peace?"
> "Is walking alone also a breach of peace?"
And what did Delhi Police list as the "threat"? Slogans at Mandi House, protests near Jantar Mantar, and asking people to join a protest at CP.
Think about it for a second.
> The bond looks harmless. "Just promise you won't break the peace."
> But sign it once, and every future protest becomes a "violation"
> Then the next student gets the same notice
> Then the next one
That's how dissent gets killed in a democracy. Not with a ban, but with paperwork.
They expected a 20-something student to quietly sign and go home. Instead they got a "no" on camera, in front of every mic.
The government has the police, the notices and the courtrooms. The students have their spine.
SIGN IT YOURSELF, SARKAAR. WE'RE NOT SCARED 🗿🔥
On January 16, 2026, three days before the window for claims and objections closed in West Bengal’s SIR, the ECI told the state’s CEO that there was no limit on how many Form 7 objections a single voter could file. | @chhuti_is
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@deedawar We've sent a response your way. You should be able to view the details via Direct Message. Appreciate your understanding. https://t.co/1WqzzOmdKe
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The dance of democracy in Andhra Pradesh!
A woman’s nomination papers were snatched from her hands as AP police officers stood by, watching without intervening.
When Police Act As Magistrate : The Bizarre Case Of Special Executive Magistrates |@manuvichar
If the roles of investigator, prosecutor, and adjudicator are blended in a single agency, can the process be considered fair, independent, and reasonable?
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अगर पीलीभीत के एक विधानसभा के स्तर पर SIR से जुड़े दो कर्मचारियों के ख़िलाफ़ कार्रवाई हो सकती है तो पूरे देश के स्तर लापरवाही से किए गए SIR की नैतिक ज़िम्मेदारी लेते हुए ज्ञानेश को इस्तीफ़ा क्यों नहीं देना चाहिए? और कितनी ख़बरें चाहिए, सबूत चाहिए ज्ञानेश को यह समझने में
उनके नेतृत्व में यह एक ऐसा स्कैम हुआ है जो हर दरवाज़े को तोड़ कर बाहर आने लगा है। उन्हें भी इसी दरवाज़े से चुनाव आयोग छोड़ कर बाहर आ जाना चाहिए और SIR रद्द कर देनी चाहिए।
New ECI trick to hide information:
Gyanesh Kumar's ECI is now trying a new trick to avoid furnishing information that can be inconvenient to him.
RTI requests are being rejected basically claiming that "Public Information Officers of ECI have other work and are busy"
This is nonsense because:
👉 Election work is ECI's permanent job. If that excuses delays/not giving info, ECI would never have to reply.
👉 ECI must appoint as many CPIOs as needed. Understaffing is ECI's failure, not the citizen's burden
👉 It has been RULED by CIC several times (e.g. Shiv Babu v MCD) that staff shortage and work overload are not excuses that can be given for not replying in time or for not providing information
Basically Gyanesh Kumar is now in panic mode and is using all kind of excuses to avoid getting caught.
Question is: HOW BIG are the scams at the ECI that they would go to any extent to hide information?
Justice is not a favour bestowed by judges. It is their duty, and the very purpose for which citizens established the judiciary and continue to fund it with public money.
If the judges wanted to dismiss the petition on the ground of an alternative legal remedy, why deliver an unnecessary lecture on matters entirely irrelevant to the case?
Why does it matter whether Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka belong to Gen Z or not? Is the Constitution different for Gen Z, millennials or any other generation? Incidentally, one of them is indeed Gen Z.
The judge remarked that they initially raised students’ issues and are now pursuing other causes.
So what? Who decides which issues a citizen can raise, the citizen or the court?
Have they signed a lifelong agreement to confine themselves to students’ issues? They are free to demand electoral reforms, judicial accountability, political reforms or any other constitutional change. Since when did courts acquire the authority to decide which public causes citizens should pursue?
Then comes the reference to arson and violent protests in other countries. What relevance does that have to these protesters? You cannot presume that someone will become violent merely because protests elsewhere have turned violent.
Where is the evidence of violence by these students? During their earlier protest, it was the police who used force against them, including batons and pellet guns. Yet the protesters are portrayed as potential troublemakers, while the conduct of the police escapes similar scrutiny.
Since when did peacefully waving the Indian Tricolour at Jantar Mantar become a threat to public peace?
What exactly happened that disturbed public peace? Was there any violence, fighting, intimidation or disorder attributable to these protesters? If not, on what factual basis were the conditions of their peace bonds treated as violated?
A breach of peace must be established through facts and evidence, not presumed from the political cause someone chooses to pursue.
Most importantly, if the petition was being dismissed because an alternative remedy was available, what was the purpose of commenting on their generation, their choice of movement and incidents of arson in other countries?
A court is expected to adjudicate legal rights and obligations, not deliver unsolicited sermons on which causes citizens should support or how they should exercise their constitutional freedoms.
The entire hearing gives the impression that the priority was to lecture the petitioners rather than examine their grievance and provide a reasoned judicial determination.
Citizens approach courts for justice, not for moral lectures on their political choices.
When ECINet was formally launched in January 2026, the Election Commission assured India that it had been developed “in strict accordance with the law.”
Now its own code is raising a far more uncomfortable question.
𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲
𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘁?
𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮'𝘀 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘀,
𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗘𝗥𝗢 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗲𝘁?
That question can no longer be brushed aside as an Opposition allegation.
An audit of ECINet by civic-tech initiative Charchagram, reported by @sreeparna_c in @the_hindu, has found something extraordinary in the platform's code
▪️ Access to enumeration-form details can be enabled or disabled State by State.
▪️ ECINet's State Nodal Officer module contains a disable function capable of shutting an SNO out of the application.
▪️ And most disturbing - the seperate audit found a West Bengal-specific condition capable of denying EROs - AEROs access to enumeration forms and the notice-and-hearing dashboard , a restriction the audit did not find for other States.
The Election Commission told India on September 24 -
ECINet is “decentralised”, and nobody other than the designated statutory officers can perform their functions on it.
But decentralisation is not merely about who clicks the final button.
The real question is - who controls whether that button and the information required to exercise the statutory power behind it, is available at all?
Yes the audit does not establish that these switches were actually used. That is precisely why the ECI must disclose the audit trail.
▪️Who can activate these controls?
▪️Who authorised them?
▪️Have they ever been used State-wise, officer-wise and date-wise?
▪️Why was West Bengal specifically hard-coded?
▪️Can DG(IT), ECINet administrators or anyone at headquarters alter an ERO,AERO's access without an order of the full Commission?
▪️And most importantly, is every such intervention immutably logged and independently auditable?
◾Because this is bigger than an IT question.
Under election law, responsibility for preparing and revising electoral rolls rests with statutory electoral authorities. Software is supposed to implement that authority not silently redistribute it.
That concern is no longer theoretical. Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi themselves reportedly warned about the “gradual centralisation” of the electoral-roll database. Sandhu reportedly went further: statutory responsibility lay with field officers while “access control has been centralised by DG(IT)”.
▪️So publish the logs.
▪️Publish the ECINet role and permission matrix.
▪️Publish every instance in which State or ERO/AERO access was enabled, disabled or modified.
▪️Identify who authorised each change.
In an election system, the most powerful person may not be the officer legally empowered to decide. It may be the person who controls what the officer is allowed to see and do.
𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝘀
𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿.
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There is much debate on if Gen-Z/youth led revolutions in Sri Lanka, Nepal & Bangladesh will happen in India.
A bigger &older question is how India avoided coups/dictatorships that other developing countries fell into.
I think free &fair elections was an important safety valve.