The intensive revision of electoral rolls is nothing new in India. The exercise has been carried out eight times in the past. But never was there a suspicion or controversy over its intent and procedural inconsistencies.

Neither has the Election Commission of India (EC) been accused of being so grossly biased towards any political party as it is being alleged now. We have heard about booth capturing in the olden days, but never of serious allegations of meticulously planned large-scale voter fraud across India, as Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi has claimed.

The grave charges raised against the EC by Rahul relating to “vote theft” in the Haryana election on Wednesday and in the Mahadevapura constituency earlier in August, as well as the various allegations of a rigged process adopted f

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