ECI’s credibility under question: Former CEC Ashok Lavasa

Former Election Commissioner (EC) Ashok Lavasa. File | Photo Credit: SIDDHANT THAKUR

Former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India, Ashok Lavasa, said that after the controversies over the alleged voter name deletions, the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) credibility is under question. Speaking at a public convention in Kolkata, Mr. Lavasa said that the voters in the country had never faced such mass anxiety before this. 

“I say with a lot of sadness and regret that the ECI has wrapped itself in so much controversy that people are on the road demanding the CEC’s resignation; India has never witnessed such a day. This is unfortunate in a democracy,” Mr. Lavasa said.  

Mr. Lavasa said that when such revisions happened before, people in the country did not have mass anxiety, and that it was caused by the unprecedented moves that were taken by the ECI, including the mass filing of Form 7 to delete voters, new questions in Form 6 without the government’s permission, or new categories like under adjudication, and others.