Rahul, Priyanka name-calling ECs is a new low |
For some time now, the Election Commission of India has seemed to be less than what it used to be. The institution that, ever since it was re-energised in the 1990s, has ranked among India’s most trusted, overseeing and ensuring free and fair elections in the world’s most diverse democracy, has invited questions about its impartiality. That said, there is no justification for the crude and unseemly attack mounted on it by India’s main opposition party. At its “vote chori” rally in the capital’s Ramlila Maidan Sunday, Congress leaders took their criticism of the EC to a new graceless pitch — Rahul and........