25 Sep 2026
Neta·Resume
Rahul Gandhi dissented: Asked that the decision wait for the Supreme Court hearing two days later, objected to the Chief Justice's removal from the panel in a dissent note, and did not take part in further proceedings. He published the note the next day.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury dissented: Recorded dissent on procedure: 212 names sent the night before and a six-name shortlist eight to ten minutes before the meeting. He said he had nothing against the two appointees. source ↗ response ↗
Education: B.Tech Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur; Business Finance, ICFAI; Environmental Economics, HIID, Harvard University - per ECI profile
The source lists these without dates. They appear in the source's order.
The Commission said statutory officers from BLOs to CEOs perform their functions on ECINET with unique IDs and passwords, that no other person, including any other Commission official, can perform those functions for them, and that the system is decentralised as the RP Acts require.
India TV's report was published at 00:00 IST on 25.09.2026, but both reports describe a statement made on Thursday 24.09.2026. Hans India attributes the ECINET part to unnamed ECI sources, so this is not confirmed as an on-record statement of the Commission. The statement was not found on eci.gov.in. It does not address specific cases such as the Goa rollback requests.