Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused the Election Commission of “destroying evidence” instead of providing transparency and answers. This came after the poll body reduced the retention period of video footage and photographs of the polling process to 45 days.
“It is clear – the match is fixed,” said Gandhi, the leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, in a social media post. “And a fixed election is poison for democracy.”
In a notice to state chief electoral officers on May 30, the commission stated the videos and photos of the polling stations can be deleted after 45 days if no election petition is filed for it. The poll body was referring to petitions filed in courts to challenge the election of a candidate in a poll.
The move came in the wake of “recent misuse of this content by non-contestants for spreading misinformation and malicious narratives on social media”, said the Election Commission.
Gandhi has consistently been demanding access to voter lists, polling data and election...
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