India, Oct. 5 -- The Indian Express, September 23, 2026, ran the front-page Investigation Report "14 times in 10 months, two Election Commissioners objected on record to steps taken by Commission - from keeping them in the dark to adding new voters and deleting names," a piece of journalism of courage that the newspaper professes to uphold. Its reporter, Ritika Chopra, Editor (Mumbai), has saved the 'Indian democracy,' as someone remarked.

The full two-page report with four titles reveals how the entire electoral process was hijacked by the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and reduced the mighty constitutionally independent Election Commission (EC) to a one-man dictatorship, imposing his diktats on the unassuming nation w...