The Election Commission of India (ECI) is learnt to have expressed dissatisfaction over the number of complaints relating to the poll process from Telangana.
A team of ECI, headed by senior Deputy Election Commissioners Nitesh Kumar Vyas and Dharmendra Sharma and principal secretary Avinash Kumar, which visited the State last week, is understood to have sought reasons from the election officials here behind the higher number of complaints, especially from political parties. Conducting elections in a transparent manner is a challenging task and steps should be taken to ensure that there were minimal complaints with regard to the process, said the ECI team.
Going by the magnitude of complaints received since the announcement of the election schedule, the number is likely to go up since the nomination process has started. It was the responsibility of the State election authority to take corrective measures so that the scope for complaints was minimised.
