The Indian Express reporter Ritika Chopra responds to the affidavit filed by the Election Commission in the Supreme Court of India. - 14 objections or notes weren't raised before the decision was taken. They were written something had already being done & the 2 EC's kept saying that nobody is keeping us in the loop. The affidavit actually does not deny any of it. - The ECI concedes that the online change made in Form 6 could have actually been construed as an amendment & that officers steps needed to be corrected. - Form 6 & the declaration was eventually split up after a meeting taken by a division of the ECI on 21st Oct. However, the affidavit actually does not tell us who really made the change in the online version of Form 6 in the first place. - On West Bengal, ECI says yes the appeals were filled by officers in the Chief Electorals Office & this matters were not brought to their attention. Intrestingly it does not explain why the head of that office told one of the commissioners in August that she knew nothing about this appeals filed before West Bengal tribunals. - On the ECI NET software, the ECI told has told the SC that the audit or rather audit by experts from IIT/IISC will be done. It does not mention that Mr Joshi had actually made a similar proposal in May & in August, Mr Sandhu had written that proposal had gone nowhere. - On the July work order that prompted 2 EC's to write independently to the Cabinet Secretary which is something unprecedented. - This affidavit actually confirms that an officer issued a work order without the EC's knowledge & 2 EC's set this order aside. The affidavit afcourse doesn't name the officer who made this decision & was eventually overturned. - This affidavit doesn't say who changed Form 6 or who authorized appeals filed before the WB tribunals. It does not explain why 3 EC's not held a single meeting of ECI for 4 months & why in Goa ECI NET software blocked 97 cases that local officers wanted cleared & back on the electoral roll. It also never answers the question that the 2 EC's kept asking on file. Not whether their notes where decisions but why where they finding out afterwards. - On the 14 objections, the only thing that ECI says that it did not authorize their release. Please note that it doesn't say that those notes where wrong. #ElectionCommission #SIR #GyaneshKumar #SupremeCourt