EC has issued clarifications saying that it would like to "emphatically and unambiguously" clarify that all such reports and allegations are "absolutely false and factually incorrect."
Following the rejection of the claims by ECI and the clarification over the issue, Frontline magazine had accepted that their report is false and a rejoinder will be published. TV9 Bharatvarsh had removed the report from their website and YouTube channel.
Pranab Mukherjee stated that election commissions starting from Shukumar Sen to the present CEC, have made sure that elections are conducted perfectly.