Rahul gandhi criticized the election commission for ordering the destruction of election footage after 45 days, alleging it was an attempt to hide evidence and fix elections.
Congress leader Rahul gandhi accused the election commission on saturday of deleting the evidence when it was required to provide the answers after the poll body instructed officers to destroy CCTV, webcasting and video footage of the elections after 45 days.
In a post on X, the congress leader said, “Voter list? Will not give a machine-readable format. CCTV footage? Hidden by changing the law. election photos and videos? Now they will be deleted in 45 days, not 1 year. The one who was supposed to provide answers - is the one deleting the evidence.”
The match is fixed. And a fixed election is poison for democracy,” the leader of Opposition in lok sabha posted in Hindi.
Gandhi has been demanding the voter lists, poll data, and video footage from the poll body and alleged irregularities in the maharashtra assembly polls. The reaction of congress leaders came after the poll body instructed the state poll officers to destroy the CCTV, webcasting, and video footage of the election process after 45 days if the verdict is not challenged in courts within that period, saying it feared the use of its electronic data to create malicious narratives.
In a letter to state chief electoral officers on May 30, the EC said it has issued instructions for recording various stages of the election process through multiple recording devices – photography, videography, CCTV, and webcasting – during the election process.
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