Ritika Chopra

This was the “official” sense at the senior level of the Government Tuesday, a day after the Jantar Mantar protests, which started with the NEET leak controversy, intensified leading to a police crackdown in the heart of the capital.

Since Thursday, the Prime Minister has been in direct control signalling his intent to address every concern of the youth, said a BJP Member of Parliament. His personal appeals over the last couple of days were continuously gauged to see if they resonated among students.

There has been dissent within the Election Commission earlier but this one is very different.

From keeping them in the dark to adding new voters, deleting names, Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi flagged "unauthorised, illegal" moves.

The section itself was not marked mandatory, but applicants could not proceed to submit the form without answering it.

When a new officer was put in charge of the EC's administration division in Delhi and issued a work allocation order that threatened to further concentrate these powers, the two ECs separately wrote to the country's top bureaucrat, Cabinet Secretary T V Somanathan.

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After a meeting on Saturday, the poll panel announced nine decisions that addressed several of the concerns recorded by Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi. But key silences remain — including on Form 6 and appeals in Bengal.

Form 6, changes to which the two ECs had red-flagged, will be re-entry route for those deleted, without the SIR question.

The affidavit says a Commissioner’s note is not a decision. But Sandhu and Joshi’s 14 notes were written after decisions had been taken without them.