An open letter, written by 272 eminent personalities, called out the Congress's criticism towards the Election Commission and urged an end to conspiracy-laced rhetoric against institutions.
The signatories include Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, Justice Hemant Gupta, Justice S N Dhingra, Justice Rajiv Lochan, retired IPS officers --
Sanjeev Tripathi, Iyer Krishna Rao, Yogesh Chander Modi
and also retired IAS officers -
R D Kapoor, Gopal Krishna, Samirendra Chatterjee, Deepak Singhal, Dinesh Kumar and also former diplomat Deepak Vohra.
"This selective outrage exposes opportunism, not conviction. It is a convenient deflection to give the impression that loss is not a result of strategy, but a conspiracy," the letter further stated.
"The Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha, (Rahul Gandhi) has repeatedly attacked the Election Commission, declaring that he has open and shut proof that the Election Commission is involved in vote theft and claimed that he has 100 per cent proof.
Using unbelievably uncouth rhetoric that what he has found is an atom bomb and when it explodes, the Election Commission would have no place to hide," they said.
Nearly 272 eminent citizens, including 16 judges, 123 retired bureaucrats, and 133 retired armed forces officers,
have issued the open letter condemning the Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi and the Congress Party for allegedly attempting to tarnish constitutional bodies such as the Election Commission.
"Such fiery rhetoric may be emotionally powerful – but it collapses under scrutiny because the Election Commission has publicly shared its SIR methodology, overseen verification by court-sanctioned means, removed ineligible names in a compliant manner and added new eligible voters," the letter said.
"He (Rahul Gandhi) has also issued threats that whoever in the Election Commission is involved in this exercise, right from top to bottom, he will not spare them. According to him, the commission is indulging in treason.
He has gone on record to threaten that if CEC/ECs are retired, he will hound them," they added.
The letter called out the Congress's criticism of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, including calling the Election Commission a "B-team of the BJP", saying it amounted to blistering rhetoric.
"Several senior figures of Congress and other political parties, leftist NGOs, ideologically opinionated scholars and a few attention seekers in other walks of life, have joined in with similarly blistering rhetoric against SIR, even declaring that the commission has descended into complete shamelessness by acting like the 'B-team of the BJP'," it stressed.
It also said that criticism towards the Election Commission disappears when electoral outcomes are favourable in some states, but it is painted as a villain when the results do not go in favour of opposition parties.
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