Rahul gandhi
Key points
- ‘There is a wholesale capture of the institutional framework of this country’
- ‘It is not just Congress, the BSP, SP, NCP are not winning elections’
- ‘To fight the elections, I need institutional structures, I need a judicial system that protects me’
New Delhi: Congress and other parties such as the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are not winning elections due to the “total capture of the institutional framework of India” and “a dominance financial and absolute media by the BJP “.
During a virtual conversation with Nicholas Burns, the former US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Harvard Kennedy School professor, Rahul Gandhi said that to fight the elections, you need institutional structures, a judicial system to protect you, a means that it is reasonably free, financial. parity and a whole set of structures that really allow a political party to operate, but he regretted saying that it does not have them.
In raising the Assam EVM issue, the Wayanad MP said, the gentleman who runs our campaign has been sending videos of BJP candidates running around the voting machines in their cars, yet there is nothing in the national media.
Assam EVM row got full coverage in regional and national media
However, his claim that the national media did not cover the issue is objectively incorrect. Several prominent newspapers and digital news websites published the report in detail.
In addition, he argued that the institutions that are supposed to support a just political struggle no longer do so.
The Election Commission suspended four officials on Friday after a video surfaced on social media showing an EVM in the car of a BJP candidate in the Patharkandi constituency after the second round of voting in Assam.
Four suspended EC officials; neat repolling in Assam
The EC special observer said there was no deliberate or malicious intention to disrupt the electoral process and said the incident appears to be isolated “due to the utter negligence and foolishness of the president and his team.”
The commission ordered to vote again at a polling place in Assam’s Ratabari Assembly constituency after the controversy.
The EC has also ordered the suspension of the president and three other officials.
