Guwahati, Oct. 26 -- The Congress on Sunday accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of withholding information about its ECINET software, alleging that the lack of transparency was concealing what the party described as large-scale, centralised manipulation of electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).

The opposition party renewed its demand for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's removal and called for the immediate suspension of the SIR exercise.

Congress general secretary in-charge of communications Jairam Ramesh raised the issue in a post on X, sharing a media report that said the ECI had refused to disclose the name and version of the software used to identify errors and anomalies in electoral rolls...