Chennai, Aug. 11 -- Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister P Chidambaram today lambasted the Election Commission of India (ECI) for trying to bully Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and party leader Rahul Gandhi for his 'Vote Chori' expose.

He wrote on X "the ECI is not a Court and cannot behave like a Court in entertaining complaints."

"The ECI is an administrative body with responsibility for holding free and fair elections. Besides Rule 20 (3) (b) will apply only to the case of a specific decision made by the ERO accepting or rejecting a 'claim' to be included in the electoral rolls", the veteran Congress leader said.

The Rule has no application in the case of alleged massive manipulation in electoral roll of a...