Election Commission has begun work to change a range of poll laws to make them relevant to political landscape, check abuse of money power and ensure level playing field.
ANUBHUTI VISHNOI
Full text of the interview with outgoing Central Election Commissioner Dr Nasim Zaidi (You can read the edited excerpts here) :
How do you look back...
The outgoing Chief Election Commissioner says he would have liked to see more electoral reform before he left.
ANUBHUTI VISHNOI
Days before he demits the top...
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Sitting in our cozy warm room and writing against EVM machines doesn’t hold water. There is a sense of uncertainty about EVMs in our country vbecause it can be tempered. EC and EVM are not going so we all people of India need to take street route to discredit EVM altogether. Please join for honest politics.
Comment:it is now become pupet and no more independant agency .it must be abolished for the sake of our nation . election must be conducted on ballet paper
True. Those familiat with Gujarat bureucracy know Mr Joti as one of Favorite and loyal officers of PM when he was CM. No wonder EC has lost credibility and stature it had.
But destrying democratic and constitutional institutions is PMs speciality.
Sitting in our cozy warm room and writing against EVM machines doesn’t hold water. There is a sense of uncertainty about EVMs in our country vbecause it can be tempered. EC and EVM are not going so we all people of India need to take street route to discredit EVM altogether. Please join for honest politics.
Mr. Yadav should send a private members bill to parliament.
Comment:it is now become pupet and no more independant agency .it must be abolished for the sake of our nation . election must be conducted on ballet paper
A valuable suggestion indeed, but useless in the prevailing state of the country’s political atmosphere.
True. Those familiat with Gujarat bureucracy know Mr Joti as one of Favorite and loyal officers of PM when he was CM. No wonder EC has lost credibility and stature it had.
But destrying democratic and constitutional institutions is PMs speciality.