23 Sep 2026
Inside the Commission
Indian Express: ECs wrote to Cabinet Secretary over IT oversight changeReportedChecked
Deputation appointment; no appointment order or date was found in public records. The Tribune and National Herald report she joined in 2025.
Hours after the report, Rahul Gandhi posted on X that vote theft was a crime against Indians and a direct attack on the Constitution, and that the BJP, RSS and Commission who organised it had committed treason. The Congress called the CEC the Prime Minister's puppet.
The BJP and the Commission have rejected the vote-theft allegations, per the report.