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New Delhi: Amidst the opposition’s demand for Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation, several parties of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) have also asked the CEC to “issue a clarification” and “defend himself” after The Indian Express published a two-part investigative this week reporting that two Election Commissioners (ECs), Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, raised at least 14 formal objections over ten months and that 97 voters in Goa successfully challenged their deletion from the draft electoral roll during the controversial Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process with the state election commission, but the commission’s software systems still failed to include them in the final electoral roll.

Union minister and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) (LJP (Ram Vilas)) leader Chirag Paswan on Friday (September 25) told Hindustan Times (HT’s) Sunetra Choudhury in an interview that “one after the other, if the fingers are raising against........

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