{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_vdoxnfak6xhvdtzgjwba","title":"Is Congress giving EC clean chit in Punjab, Himachal, Kerala, Karnataka? Smriti Irani hits back at CWC","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/is-congress-giving-ec-clean-chit-in-punjab-himachal-kerala-karnataka-vdoxnfak6x","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_vdoxnfak6xhvdtzgjwba","seq":665535,"kind":"article","title":"Is Congress giving EC clean chit in Punjab, Himachal, Kerala, Karnataka? Smriti Irani hits back at CWC","url":"https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/is-congress-giving-ec-clean-chit-in-punjab-himachal-kerala-karnataka-smriti-irani-hits-back-at-cwc","summary":"Hours after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) raised question marks on the functioning of Election Commission (EC), BJP fielded national general secretary Smriti Irani to ask whether the grand old party was giving a clean chit to the poll body in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and other states with non-BJP governments. Irani asked if the […]","published":"2026-09-29T11:44:54Z","seen":"2026-09-29T12:17:28Z","lang":"en","country":"IN","source":{"id":"kite-publish-tribuneindia-com-adb3ef","name":"publish.tribuneindia.com","domain":"publish.tribuneindia.com"},"via":"kite-publish-tribuneindia-com-adb3ef","topics":["#politicaldebate","aohume","bjp","cec","congress","democracyindia","electioncommission","electionintegrity"],"authors":["Manikant Mishra"],"entities":[{"id":"Q7546539","name":"Smriti Irani","type":"person"},{"id":"Q5160846","name":"Congress Working Committee","type":"org"}],"mentions":4,"story":"st_vdoxnfak6xhvdtzgjwba","category":"politics","category_p":0.9100000262260437,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.33000001311302185,"political":0.949999988079071}]}