{"id":941835,"date":"2025-06-27T08:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941835"},"modified":"2025-06-27T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T04:19:20","slug":"not-tenable-ec-sources-on-cong-seeking-digital-copy-of-maharashtra-voters-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/27\/not-tenable-ec-sources-on-cong-seeking-digital-copy-of-maharashtra-voters-list\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Not tenable&#8217;: EC sources on Cong seeking digital copy of Maharashtra voters&#8217; list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the Congress urged the Election Commission to provide machine-readable digital copy of the Maharashtra voters&#8217; list, EC sources on Thursday said the demand is &#8220;not tenable&#8221; under the prevailing legal framework, asserting that a similar plea of the party was junked by the Supreme Court in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;not new&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; an EC source pointed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the Congress urged the Election Commission to provide machine-readable digital copy of the Maharashtra voters&#8217; list, EC sources on Thursday said the demand is &#8220;not tenable&#8221; 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 &#8220;not new&#8221;. &#8220;Rather, it forms part of a strategy by the political party for well over eight years, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}