Election Commission Is Behaving Like A "Biased Umpire": Derek O'Brien
NDTV
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has also written to the leaders of various parties of the INDIA bloc on Tuesday over the alleged discrepancies in voting data.
A day after the Trinamool Congress wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner demanding that the number of voters in the first two phases be made public, party leader Derek O'Brien has questioned the neutrality of the poll panel.
In a post on X on Tuesday, he said, "Does EC now stand for 'extremely compromised!" "In cricket, there are three kinds of umpires- an umpire, a neutral umpire and a biased umpire. By the actions of EC, more and more people are being convinced that EC fits into the third category," Mr O'Brien, who is the Trinamool Congress' Leader in the Rajya Sabha, said.
The Trinamool Congress had on Monday urged Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar to "urgently furnish" the constituency-wise voter turnout in absolute numbers for the first two phases of Lok Sabha polls and also sought an explanation over the "delay" in releasing the figures.
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