{
  "id": 9993512,
  "title": "EC says poll commissioners' letters to Cabinet Secretary not over policy matter, but 'related to...'",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/ec-says-poll-commissioners-letters-to-cabinet-secretary-not-over",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-26T13:59:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hindustan Times",
    "slug": "hindustan-times",
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/ec-says-poll-commissioners-letters-to-cabinet-secretary-not-over-policy-matter-but-related-to-101790430274472.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Election Commission (EC) clarified on Saturday that the letters sent to cabinet secretary T V Somanathan by election commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi were not related to any policy matter, but were instead concerning the functioning of an officer on deputation to the ECI. The clarification comes after a report by The Indian Express, based on internal documents and interviews, which stated that Sandhu and Joshi had separately written to the cabinet secretary over changes in work allocation. The issue centers on ECINet, a unified technology platform launched by the ECI on January 22, which was designed to bring more than 40 applications and portals under one system.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}