00:00Critical showdown, public outrage, constant one after another breakdown of what we know as what is happening in the EC
00:08is coming forth.
00:08Amid all of this, CEC Gyanesh Kumar's Uttar Pradesh visits are being postponed or cancelled.
00:15The latest that I have is that the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar was set to visit Merut and Varanasi.
00:23And both the visits have for now been postponed.
00:27High-ranking sources within the Commission have put an end to the speculation and questions rising from the development.
00:32Commission sources confirm CEC visits to the two cities were not postponed abruptly.
00:38There is no connection to the recent controversy.
00:42And the official announcement of the postponed had been made already past week as well.
00:47The DMs of Merut and Kashi had already been informed via email.
00:51And therefore that these visits constantly can be facing frequent changes as well.
00:56So that is the latest as well.
00:58Himachal Pradesh visit was postponed due to the tourist season examinations.
01:02Yuva Samwad in Uttarakhand was scheduled to take place after the completion of SIR.
01:06All of this appeared to have been deferred for now.
01:10Even the Ladakh program was deferred due to Mansur over disaster.
01:14Up to 1,000 youths participate in such events.
01:17Let me bring in immediately our legal correspondent and Sanjay Sharma who has been tracking the Election Commission as well.
01:24For us to really understand what exactly is happening in those cases.
01:28And precisely why we believe that the situation that is turning.
01:34Is it against the CEC?
01:36Is he unable to defend himself?
01:39And could this prove to be trouble for Election Commission?
01:43I have these visuals on your screen.
01:44And these are while the protests are breaking out across the country.
01:49The India bloc is uniting over this.
01:52And they are taking it up to ensure they step up ante against the government.
01:57And we go across to the visuals also that are coming in on this.
02:01But clearly looks like that the situation, at least for the CEC and for the Election Commission,
02:09is turning troublesome.
02:18It's joining me now.
02:21Sanjay Ji, tell me this.
02:23These are the CEC's cancelled, postponed.
02:27Clearly coincidence is that it's a lot of news reports that the Indian Express report came out.
02:33But you think that's the reason.
02:34What information is the Commission giving you?
02:36Why are the CEC's postponed visits?
02:38And what kind of mood is the election commission?
02:40Commission, many times before this, they have been doing it in the election commission.
02:46First of all, Ladakh has been postponed.
02:49Uttarakhand.
02:50So Uttarakhand has been postponed.
02:52Jharkhand has been postponed.
02:53Because you can see that it's true that it's not a lot of research in the election commission.
02:58When you set the doors, you have to look at it.
03:01As you have to look at it, you have to look at it.
03:02Sometimes the election will declare the whole program of the election.
03:07But then you know that it will be done.
03:08So polling day is the only chance of the poll.
03:10Sometimes it is the only chance of the poll.
03:12And it is the only chance to change the election commission.
03:16So this is the case that they have done
03:20many times in logistics, many times in the case of the poll.
03:24They have to change the election commission.
03:27But the background is that no one will not be able to protest.
03:33Do you think the election commission is afraid?
03:35of the statement.
03:37Election Commission has to say that we have given 21 times
03:40communication and send me a copy of the mail
03:44which was sent to Banaras and Merit
03:47to the DEO.
03:49So they have to say that the news is coming
03:51from 23 times.
03:52And we have done it before.
03:55So this is just coincidence.
03:58But one final question, Sanjay Ji, because you have been covering
04:01the election commission also for so many years.
04:03Is this the first time that you are listening to the descent?
04:07Or is this the controversy
04:09could be a problem for CEC?
04:12How are you looking at these developments?
04:14I think that when there are three
04:16of them, there is descent.
04:20And as you can see, Ashok Lawasah,
04:23the election commissioner,
04:25they have also said that they are descent.
04:29Our descent note is going to be side-line.
04:31I think it is going to be side-line.
04:33Yes, yes.
04:33That means that Arun Goyal,
04:35the election commissioners,
04:36the election commissioners,
04:38the election commissioners,
04:46the election commissioners,
04:49the election commissioners,
05:00that said,
05:00that's the guy who vendred him together.
05:03That's the issue of vote to the election.
05:06This is what I would like to say that if we talk about the Mandel in the Mandel then dissent
05:11is there too.
05:12In our bureau meetings we have dissent that you agree or disagree.
05:18But if you agree to disagree, you agree with any other thing.
05:23The election commission has dissent but the second thing has dissent.
05:28And the final sign that we have done in order is the same.
05:33One thing to clear is that the sources are saying that there are three people.
05:40So in some cases these two are the same.
05:46So the election commissioners are not the same.
05:50And the chief election commissioners are the same.
05:53And the chief election commissioners are the same.
05:55It is the same.
05:56Just from the authority view.
05:58Some times the election commissioners are the same.
06:02Some of them are the same.
06:04It is dissent.
06:05But they have to say dissent.
06:09It is not that both dissent and the chief election commissioners have the same.
06:13Clear it.
06:14So that's important.
06:16That's an important protocol that he is mentioning.
06:18Because that is the charge that's coming in.
06:20I appreciate you joining us.
06:21Sanjay Sharma, decades of experience covering the judiciary and election commission is helping us understand.
06:25What kind of dissent and why the EC believes that it's not a concern, a problem.
06:33But as we can see, a huge political showdown has erupted.
