A group of 272 senior figures—including retired judges, bureaucrats, and military officers—released an open letter vehemently slamming Congress and Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi for their serious, unsubstantiated allegations against the Election Commission of India (ECI) under the party’s ‘vote chori’ campaign; the signatories asserted that the accusations are an “attempt to drape political frustration in the garb of institutional crisis” and demanded that political actors cease undermining the ECI.
