Election Commission of India

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Time for proof is now, Mr. Gandhi

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Analysis Op-eds Bharatiya Janata Party Bihar Assembly elections Election Commission of India electoral fraud electronic voting machines Maharashtra Assembly elections Model Code of Conduct political capture Prime Minister Narendra Modi public trust Rahul Gandhi voter list inflation

Rahul Gandhi is free to voice himself but on the question of the Election Commission “stealing votes”, as he has been claiming to the press, he needs to offer the proof he claims he has right away. By…

Enfeebling the Indian space programme

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Analysis Science Axiom Space Axiom-4 Bharatiya Janata Party Board of Control for Cricket in India Chandrayaan 2 Covaxin Department of Space Election Commission of India Falcon 9 HUNOR Indian Space Research Organisation K Sivan NASA political capture Prime Minister Narendra Modi S Somanath Shubhanshu Shukla SpaceX V Narayanan VG Somani Vikram lander

There's no denying that there currently prevails a public culture in India that equates criticism, even well-reasoned, with pooh-poohing. It's especially pronounced in certain geographies wher…

Correlation isn’t causation — the EVM edition

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Analysis Bharatiya Janata Party Election Commission of India electronic voting machines Indian National Congress Maharashtra paper ballots software testing Supreme Court of India voter-verifiable paper audit trail voting

The space to disagree with the Election Commission’s position vis-à-vis the integrity of electronic voting machines without finding oneself backtracking into the Congress or the BJP camps is shrinking…