Govt defends revision of electoral rolls in RS, Oppn MPs push back

No one questioned the credibility of the Election Commission of India (ECI) during the Congress regime, Union minister JP Nadda said on Tuesday as he accused the Opposition party of misleading the country by spreading "misconception" about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls after losing elections.

- Dheer Chawla

The Opposition, however, accused the government of misusing the exercise to divide people and deflect them from its failures.

"For years, the responsibility of overseeing ECI functioning and work rested with a party, and that party stayed in power for a long time ... it wasn't with a party but with one family, and no questions were raised about the Election Commission's credibility," Nadda said, while participating in a discussion on the concluding day of SIR debate in the Rajya Sabha.