Rip Van Winkle politics: Congress late to poll reform
Messed-up voter lists are a serious challenge and the ECI is meeting the same head on through the SIR, an exercise opposed by the INDIA bloc and the Leader of Supposition, Rahul Gandhi.
Updated At : 05:51 AM Aug 13, 2025 IST
Wrong timing : The appropriate course of action for the Congress would have been to file formal objections before or immediately after the election. Sandeep Joshi
IN popular memory, the statement that 'consistency is the virtue of an ass' is often attributed to Jawaharlal Nehru. Apparently, his great-grandson seems to have taken this quite seriously. Had Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi been really serious about his claims of several errors and wrong data entries in electoral rolls, he would neither have objected to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) campaign undertaken by the Election Commission of India (ECI) nor opposed the one nation one election Bill currently under Parliament's consideration.
