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Democracy Demands Integrity, Not Selective Outrage: Fadnavis Backs EC
- •Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis defended the Election Commission, citing support from 124 retired IAS, IFS, and allied service officers.
- •Fadnavis highlighted Bihar's 2025 elections, which achieved a record 67.13 percent voter turnout with zero repolls and cleaned voter lists.
- •The retired officers criticized political leaders for making unsubstantiated allegations of vote rigging and undermining democratic trust.
- •Several opposition leaders were recently detained during protests against the poll body over the SIR of electoral rolls.
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis defended the Election Commission by highlighting a statement from 124 retired IAS, IFS, and allied service officers who backed the poll body. He emphasized that these veterans helped build the electoral system and understood its safeguards.
The 2025 Bihar Assembly elections recorded zero re-polls and a record voter turnout of 67.13%, which was the highest since 1951. Additionally, the electoral roll revision successfully removed lakhs of dead and duplicate entries from lists that had remained unchanged since 2003.
Several opposition leaders, including former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, and former Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, were detained during protests against the poll body on Saturday.
