Cong claims integrity of electoral process compromised; Kharge talks tough on poll debacle

NEW DELHI: The integrity of the entire electoral process was being “severely compromised” and the Congress would soon launch a nationwide movement against it, the party said on Friday, while its chief Mallikarjun Kharge asserted that “tough decisions” need to be taken to strengthen the party.

Top Congress leaders deliberated on the political situation in the country on Friday and discussed the reasons for the party’s poor show in Maharashtra and Haryana polls, with several leaders alleging “irregularities” in the poll process.

A resolution adopted by the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the top decision-making body of the party, said free and fair elections, a Constitutional mandate, were being called into “serious question by the partisan functioning of the Election Commission”.