New Delhi, Oct. 27 -- Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday termed the counter-affidavit filed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in the Supreme Court as "deceptive, deceitful and duplicitous".

In a post on X, the Congress leader outlined serious allegations regarding illegal changes to voter registration forms, internal dissent within the commission, and the centralisation of electoral roll operations in a detailed six-point rebuttal.

The Rajya Sabha MP alleged that the ECI keeps changing its own stance, noting that previously the poll body claimed that the new mandatory declaration was a part of Form 6, and now says otherwise.

"The ECI has engaged in patent deception and word games on this point. First, it claimed th...