Why is our Election Commission so inept and spineless ??
Have they forgotten what happened during second wave ??
They have all the power in the world to stop rallies and utter disgusting religious politics that's happening in them.
The election commission, or the bureaucracy in general these days, toes the line of the govt. If it's asked to standup, it stands up, if asked to sit, it sits down. There are majority who are spineless, some have little spine, but too tired to taken on the system. Those who have spine or morality are shunted out. Read about Shah Faesal, Ashok Lavassa, Kannan Gopinathan, Durga Shakti Nagpal, Ashok Khemka, Satyendra Dubey.
The EC during the period of T.N. Seshan was the only time when politicians were actually scared of EC. Coz he took decisions based on public interests, had zero tolerance towards political stupidity. Since then, EC was changed from one-person to three-person commission so that decision cannot be based on one person alone, although controversial.
IAS means I AM SORRY!!! Thou shan't question my political master.
This is not to say everything's bad. There are some who do good work but are masqueraded by those rotten apples.
End of day, you will get the governance you vote for. If you vote for lunatics, you will keep seeing these incidents. A sane elected representative could probably give you better governance.