Hansaria: A compromised ECI sets a dangerous precedent for the erosion of other independent institutions. It signals that constitutional checks can be reset to suit those in power weakening the guardrails that prevent the majoritarian excesses.

Hansaria: democracy does not collapse overnight. It's hollowed out gradually through shift in institutional autonomy by compromising principles of checks and balances and winding the pendulum grossly in favour of the executive.

Hansaria concludes.