On the eve of the Congress party presidential election, Ram Niwas Mirdha, the man in charge of the poll process, on Saturday said there were serious shortcomings in the election process. “There have been many complaints and they could well be true,” Mirdha, the chief of the Congress Election Committee, told a private news channel. Admitting that there were serious shortcomings in the Congress party's first ever intra-party elections, he said, “The problems have cropped up because we have not gone by rules.” Mirdha has been accused of turning a blind eye to complaints that the list of Congress delegates had been doctored. Bureau Report