24 Sep 2026
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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.
Education: MBBS (Government Medical College, Amritsar); Master's in History (Guru Nanak Dev University) - per ECI profile and The Tribune; The Tribune also reports a law degree
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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.