NEW DELHI, Oct. 14 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday countered the Opposition's allegations of electoral irregularities against the Election Commission of India (ECI), saying the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had given the poll panel complete autonomy to function independently. Addressing the media, Union minister Piyush Goyal said ECI officials had not been "offered political benefits, but allowed to work honestly" and retorted that the Congress should examine its own record of accommodating former election commissioners. "One CEC was given a party ticket, one was inducted into the Union Cabinet, two CECs were appointed as Governors, and when a CEC said that an Election Commissioner working under him was acting...