The Congress on Thursday (October 8, 2026) attacked the BJP over the alleged “flaws” in the ECINet application, saying it is becoming abundantly clear that it was designed to centralise all deletions and additions from the ruling party’s headquarters in New Delhi.
Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh shared on X the screenshot of a media report which quoted a security researcher as saying that he warned the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the country’s cyber-security agency, CERT-In, about flaws in the Commission’s voter-services website and its ECINET app in July. In his post on X, Mr. “Incidentally this researcher is the same young man who had completely exposed the CBSE’s IT system a few months back that had, among other things, sealed the fate of Mantri Pradhan.
Ramesh said, “A leading daily reports this morning that on July 8, 2026 a security researcher had brought several flaws in ECINET to the attention of the Election Commission. But acknowledgement of one of his several concerns came only on October 6, 2026 when the ECI was under all-round fire and attack.
It is now the turn of Pradhan Mantri,” the Congress leader said.
