The blatant and brazen partisanship that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has displayed in the past few years warranted serious suspicions. It sank to a new low with its handling of Meenakshi Natarajan’s case last week. The nomination papers of Natarajan, Congress in-charge for Telangana and former Rajya Sabha member, for the Upper House for one of the three seats in Madhya Pradesh were rejected on the grounds that she had failed to disclose information of a case against her in Hyderabad in her election affidavit. Natarajan was one of the respondents—respondent number 4—in a private complaint by a former Telugu Desam Party corporator. There was no criminal FIR against her, let alone........

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