Maha top poll officer seeks ECINet discretion for local staff, a demand 2 ECs flagged: Report

Maharashtra Chief Electoral Officer S Chockalingam wrote to Election Commission and requested that EROs be allowed to decide which "logical discrepancy" cases need hearing, what documents to accept and which discrepancies they can dispose of themselves, The Indian Express reported. The Indian Express had reported that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had raised the same issue.