The Election Commission is facing fresh scrutiny after an Indian Express report highlighted disagreements among its members over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. The dispute recalls two earlier episodes of internal dissent: TN Seshan\u2019s legal battle over the multi-member poll panel in the 1990s and Ashok Lavasa\u2019s dissent during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Both cases shaped debates over the EC\u2019s functioning and authority.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Election Commission is facing fresh scrutiny after an Indian Express report highlighted disagreements among its members over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. The dispute recalls two earlier episodes of internal dissent: TN Seshan\u2019s legal battle over the multi-member poll panel in the 1990s and Ashok Lavasa\u2019s dissent during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.… Read More »The Backstory: When EC disagreements went public, from Seshan to Lavasa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":136591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}