‘Not tenable’: EC sources on Cong seeking digital copy of Maharashtra voters’ list
A day after the Congress urged the Election Commission to provide machine-readable digital copy of the Maharashtra voters’ list, EC sources on Thursday said the demand is “not tenable” under the prevailing legal framework, asserting that a similar plea of the party was junked by the Supreme Court in 2019.
The EC sources said while Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been demanding for machine-readable, digital copy of the electoral roll for the last seven months, such demand by the Congress is “not new”.
“Rather, it forms part of a strategy by the political party for well over eight years, a fact that appears to have been selectively obscured in the present representation,” an EC source pointed out.
