At sixes and sevens, the ECI’s growing credibility crisis
This article critiques the Election Commission of India (ECI), arguing that its recent administrative decisions and handling of electoral complaints have severely damaged its institutional credibility. The author highlights a pattern of perceived bias, lack of transparency, and dismissive treatment of opposition concerns as evidence of a decline in the body's constitutional integrity.
Why it matters
The ECI is the cornerstone of Indian democracy; a loss of public trust in its impartiality threatens the legitimacy of the entire electoral process.
Is the Election Commission of India (ECI) at sixes and sevens, idiomatically and otherwise? Will Form 6 be its undoing, and has Form 7 caused it unmanageable discomfiture? The barbs associated with these forms have further damaged the image of the beleaguered constitutional body entrusted with safeguarding the constitutional right to vote of “we, the people”.
Never before has the ECI been so severely berated, becoming the object of unprecedented public outcry, adverse media attention and social scrutiny as in recent times. It took the ECI years of toil and transparency to earn public trust; it has taken the temperament of a few individuals to erode it through their disregard for the concerns, genuine or imagined, of those who had earlier sworn by the very same institution.
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