Mumbai, Sept. 25 -- Escalating the opposition's offensive against the ruling dispensation and the country's electoral body, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) MLA Rohit Pawar has launched a scathing critique, declaring that constitutional trust in India's leadership has suffered a "100 per cent betrayal".

Invoking a critical observation made by Supreme Court Justice Dipankar Datta regarding the "constitutional trust" reposed in rulers, Pawar asserted that the sanctity of India's democratic framework has been severely compromised. He directly accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of operating under political influence to secure an unbridled, brute majority for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), turning autonomous in...