New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- Amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the Election Commission of India, Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge on Thursday launched a sharp critique against the central leadership, alleging that systemic changes and institutional frameworks are engineered to shield top figures while accountability is deflected onto individual officials.

Kharge, in a post on X, refering to a report by The Indian Express claiming that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had raised objections at least 14 times over 10 months regarding decisions and orders linked to electoral-roll procedures and the SIR exercise, argued that focusing solely on individual personnel misses the broader structural issues embedded in t...