<h1>Election authority gives seven-day ultimatum for affidavit on 'vote theft' claims; denies sharing machine-readable rolls; GST slab reform proposed</h1> Ruling coalition nominated a state governor as its vice-presidential candidate. The chief election authority issued a seven-day ultimatum requiring the main opposition leader to file a sworn affidavit substantiating public allegations of electoral 'vote theft,' warning that failure will render the claims baseless; the authority also defended the accuracy of electoral rolls while attributing duplicate voter entries to migration or administrative error. The commission reiterated that machine-readable voters' lists cannot be shared with political parties, citing a prior supreme court judgment. Separately, a parliamentary committee heard that constitutional validity of a proposal does not equate to its desirability, and the government announced major proposed GST reforms toward a simplified slab regime.