The Election Commission Under Scrutiny

Through the first half of 2026 the Election Commission of India spent as much energy defending itself as running elections. A nationwide Special Intensive Revision of the voter rolls, overnight transfers of senior officers in poll-bound states, and an unresolved challenge to the way election commissioners are appointed all landed at once - even as the Supreme Court, in late May, upheld the Commission's core power to purge the rolls. This card pulls the year's ECI controversies into one place.