In the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, the election commission has been under fire on multiple fronts – from failing to curb hate speech to not putting out absolute numbers for voter turnout and delay even in the release of voter turnout percentage. Now, journalist associations are also questioning why the poll monitoring body is not holding press conferences after each phase of voting.
The News Minute’s Pooja Prasanna speaks to transparency activist Anjali Bharadwaj on the discrepancy in the initial and final voter turnout percentages and the questions being raised over the authenticity of the data.
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