‘Democracy facing gravest threat’: Opposition parties after Centre changes election conduct rules

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday alleged that the Union government’s move to amend an election rule to restrict public access to poll-related documents was done “to kill the transparency in election” adding that “democracy is facing its gravest threat”.

Stalin in a social media post said that “it is shocking that the Election Commission of India, instead of fighting for institutional integrity, has willingly succumbed to the pressure of Prime Minister Modi’s Government and happily involved in defacing its own child - the free and fair election!”

Democracy is facing its gravest threat under the BJP-led Union Government with the reckless amendment of Section 93(2)(a) of the Conduct of Election Rules, to kill the transparency in election.

Consequent on the direction of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to furnish the CCTV… https://t.co/vkAaY2ynr3— M.K.Stalin (@mkstalin) December 23, 2024

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had on Sunday alleged that the Union government’s amendment was part of a “systematic conspiracy” to undermine the Election Commission’s integrity.

Kharge wrote in a post on X that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government’s “calibrated erosion” of the Election Commission’s institutional integrity was a frontal attack on the Constitution and democracy.

Modi Govt’s audacious amendment in the Conduct of Election Rules is another assault in its systematic conspiracy...

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