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‘Shaken faith’: Why are India’s elections under unprecedented scrutiny?



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xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoRahul Gandhi demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner of India Gyanesh Kumar over the controversy of the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and alleged the participation of the Election Commission in rigging the recent elections in India [Rajat Gupta/EPA]By Yashraj SharmaPublished On 26 Sep 202626 Sep 2026New Delhi, India – Indian democracy has been shaken by new revelations showing di

India’s Election Commission, a supposedly autonomous constitutional body, is tasked with administering elections in the world’s largest democracy, and in recent decades, had won admirers across the globe for its success in conducting a voting process unmatched in scale and complexity.

But an investigation by The Indian Express newspaper reported that the current chief of the commission frequently overruled concerns raised by his two other equally ranked commissioners about the integrity of ongoing changes in the voter database.

These revelations come after a months-long struggle by India’s opposition parties to bring what they have described as the “sabotaging” conduct of the election commission to the fore, which they say is dictated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party for its electoral benefit.

For decades, India has grappled with deep inequality; divisions along caste, religious and ethnic lines; and the growing role of money in its elections. Yet through it all, the actual conduct of its elections was largely viewed as “free” domestically and by global monitors.

But leading opposition leaders have, in recent months and years, for the first time, questioned whether elections can be trusted and whether votes are counted accurately, as well as whether rights decide who gets to be a voter or if those in authority take the decision arbitrarily. Those concerns, say analysts, are likely to only be amplified by the latest revelations.

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