EC's independence 'severely eroded' since 2014: Congress

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NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday said the Election Commission has refused to meet INDIA bloc parties on the issue of use of 100 per cent VVPAT slips and alleged that the constitutional body's independence has been "severely eroded" since 2014..

The opposition party's criticism of the poll panel came after police detained National Panthers Party (NPP) chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh along with his several supporters after they tried to stage a protest outside Nirvachan Bhawan in Jammu against the "delay" in holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir...

A team of Election Commission officials led by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar reached Jammu on Wednesday to review preparedness for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in the Union Territory...

"Its behaviour in Jammu is not surprising but is shocking nonetheless," he said.. Ramesh was responding to a post by a Congress leader from Jammu who said the Election Commission is in Jammu but NPP leader Harsh Dev Singh is detained for trying to submit a memorandum...

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