Rush Hour: Rahul Gandhi tells CEC to ‘turn approver’, journalist Ravi Nair gets bail and more

Rahul Gandhi, the leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, said that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar should resign from his post and “turn approver”. The Congress leader also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah “will be investigated” for “stealing the votes” of ordinary Indians.

He was speaking at a press conference in Delhi after an Indian Express’ investigation published on Wednesday revealed that two election commissioners had objected 14 times in 10 months to decisions about the panel’s special intensive revision of the electoral rolls.

Gandhi claimed that anti-incumbency had “disappeared” from several states in the country because the votes had been stolen. He added that if “votes are destroyed”, then “our Constitution has been destroyed”. Read on.

Before election commissioners flagged ‘centralisation’ of voter rolls, it was done in Bengal SIR, writes Anant Gupta

A Gujarat court granted bail to journalist Ravi Nair in a criminal defamation case filed by Adani Enterprises over a series of posts he had made on X between October 2020 and July 2021. He had been sent to jail on September 17 for failing to appear in person for a hearing in the case.

On Wednesday, the Gujarat High Court refused to grant interim relief to him. He had also approached the sessions...

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