00:00Congress' blistering attack on the Election Commission.
00:04Congress says CEC hijacking its own commissioner, Kyanesh Sharma, doing internal bulldozing.
00:15Yes, they also said that they would like to have a bridge here.
00:20And that they're having a series actually all across the constituency.
00:25The Manrega, the VBG Ramji workers.
00:30They are having a major problem because they have to upload their details of doing the work twice a day.
00:37In these areas there's no signal, there's no tower, sometimes the portal is not functioning.
00:44It's very difficult, they don't even have smartphones.
00:46So it's a very, very difficult process for them to upload their photograph twice a day
00:52and to go through that whole complicated process.
00:57And Abhishek Manu Singhvi is also addressing a press conference on the Election Commission issue.
01:04Let's listen in to what he has to say.
01:35What have you heard from this country?
01:35where you won't win
01:36where you won't win
01:38in Karnatak
01:40where you won't win
01:40where you won't win
01:44where you won't win
01:46where you won't win
01:46I have no obsession
01:48I've never seen
01:53I've seen
01:55FIR
01:56candidate
01:57who 2026
01:58you won't win
02:01FIR
02:02why
02:02Why ?
02:04By-pole
02:06são
02:06listen to
02:15some complaints
02:18and this is the most important thing that you have listened to today's report,
02:28or the complaints of today's report.
02:31I will say that some days before,
02:37Mr. Ramesh Ji had a few of them,
02:40I would like to have three or four of them.
02:43This is a repetition,
02:44but in today's report,
02:491.
02:51Phase 1 and Phase 2,
02:537.8 crores,
02:558 crores have been deleted.
02:58Phase 1 and Phase 2.
03:00This is the number 1.
03:03If you have seen that it is coming out in the news media as well,
03:10that election commissioners themselves have highlighted some of the issues to Gyanesh Kumar Ji.
03:16So I think this is an extremely serious issue for our democracy.
03:21Because if there are no elections, then where is democracy?
03:25And if the elections are unfair, and they are being rigged in any manner,
03:30and the election commission is assisting in that,
03:33and if the election commissioner himself is not only aware of it,
03:37but he is allowing it to happen,
03:39then it is a very, very serious assault on democracy.
03:42It is actually treachery with the nation.
03:47It is an act of treason.
03:50And whoever is doing it has to be taken to task.
03:54There should be proper procedure,
03:56and it should be properly investigated.
03:58And investigated not by people who are not going to have a fair investigation into it,
04:03but it should be looked into in a manner where we know,
04:07and the whole nation knows that this is being done in a proper manner.
04:10Because the nation can know,
04:12we are the largest democracy in the world,
04:14and we have had a robust democracy for years, for decades.
04:19We cannot afford to go lightly on these issues.
04:23We are all working tirelessly to strengthen our democracy.
04:28And here is the election commission that is doing all it can to weaken it.
04:33If that is actually the case,
04:35and if what has come in the news media are actual facts,
04:39and if what we have suspected for a very long time,
04:41which Rahul Gandhi ji has been highlighting again and again,
04:44with the manipulation of voters lists,
04:46the deletion of lakhs and lakhs of voters,
04:49the manipulations that have taken place in states like Maharashtra, Haryana,
04:55we have seen again and again,
04:57then absolutely this is something extremely serious,
05:01and those people who are responsible for it,
05:04they have to be taken to task.
05:06They have to be held responsible.
05:11Now the whole day you will leave me alone.
05:16All right, the Congress there raising serious concerns for India's democracy,
05:21blistering attack on the election commission,
05:23amid reports of allegations that CEC hijacking its own commissioners.
05:29Remember the reports alleging that there were internal concerns raised,
05:34which were bulldozed allegedly by the chief election commissioner,
05:39and the Congress party has very clearly seized upon this report,
05:44saying that even though the Supreme Court and the Constitution say that all election commissioners are equal,
05:51the CEC is the first among equals,
05:53but it seems that CEC is hijacking his own commissioners.
05:58In fact, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi pointing out very clearly that there should be,
06:06that any dissent notes that were filed by the election commissioners should be put out in public domain.
06:13Priyanka Gandhi also very clearly attacking the election commission's functioning,
06:17questioning what is happening in the commission.
06:23Let's listen in once again to what Abhishek Manu Singhvi has been saying in the press conference.
06:30They have not given the country's statements,
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06:37But they have committed their colleagues themselves.
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09:45sources, however, they have told India today that if you look at the documents where the
09:50signatures had taken place, then all three of them had signed on all the orders. And
09:55yes, there was definitely a discussion that happened. And in discussion, people can have
09:59different viewpoints. That is something that at the moment is being looked at. But yes,
10:04all the opposition parties, be it the Samajwadi party, be it the Congress party, be it TMC,
10:09all of them pointing fingers and saying that this is exactly what they had also been speaking
10:13about and also saying that now is the time when course correction needs to be done within the
10:17election council of India. Well, Aishwarya, you know, you're talking about political parties
10:22calling for course correction, but we're also seeing these reports, these allegations that
10:26the election commissioners themselves have been raising concerns. Now, Abhishek Manu Singh,
10:32we're also saying that any dissent notes, any statements, etc. that were raised should be put
10:38in public domain so that people should know what is happening. Even Priyanka Gandhi saying
10:42this seems to be strangling of democracy inside the commission itself.
10:48Definitely, you know, those questions are being raised. The election commission at the moment
10:52quite about the kind of questions that in fact were being raised by both the election,
10:58by both the ECs now, but what the election commission also has gone forward and said that
11:03whenever there are discussions that take place, most of the times there are different opinions
11:07which come to the fore, but at the time of decision making, all three of them were on the
11:12same page. But yes, there are some questions that the election commission still needs to answer.
11:17The questions with regards to what the election commissioner, in fact, SS Sandhu also had spoken
11:22about and had said that there were changes in Form 6 that were being made. That is something which the
11:28opposition parties now also are very keenly pointing fingers. And apart from that, they are also saying
11:33that there are clear answers that not just the opposition party, but even people of the country
11:38are now willing to ask. In fact, let me tell you, TMC, one of the parties which in fact had
11:44been
11:44speaking against Gyanesh Kumar had also given him the nickname of being Vanished Kumar because the TMC
11:50said that names from the electoral rule were being vanished. TMC now saying that the impeachment motion that
11:55they wanted to bring against the CEC is something that the opposition parties together should once again
12:00look at and is something that should in fact be brought out in the upcoming winter session of
12:04parliament. Anisha. Well, Aishwarya, you know, we've been seeing this question of how the EC has been functioning.
