The Election Commission of India — variously called the Election Commission, the ECI or EC — was set up in 1950 as an autonomous constitutional authority responsible for carrying out election processes in India. It administers elections to the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, State Legislative Assemblies, and the offices of the President and Vice President.
Headquartered in Delhi, the Election Commission consists of three members — a chief election commissioner and two other commissioners — who are appointed by the President. They have a tenure of six years or until they reach the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier. The Election Commission prepares, maintains, and updates the electoral roll; supervises the nomination of candidates; registers political parties and classifies them on national and state levels; and monitors election campaigns, including political fund-raising.
Sad today’s EC shivers under the rule of NDA,abiding by their diction hoping for an extension or governor’s post. Not just EC but IT,ED,CBI,RBI,ECI AND JUDICIARY ARE PUPPETS UNDER MODI
Common were helpless and tired of the hypocrisy of political leaders irrespective of colours. Just at that time Mr. Seshan appeared as a dream. The then political leaders scared him. After his tenure he unfortunately entered into the murky world of politics and finished himself which may be called irony of fate.
He is one of the ablest administrator took
Hard decisions directed subordinates to
according to rule book do not do phycofancy
to politicians, will be very hard find such
Personalities.
Couldn’t agree more with the views expressed in this article. He was an ideal Civil servant in every sense of the term who continues to inspire many youngsters to this day who dream of making it to the Civil Services. We need more of his breed in this country.
one of the bold bureaucrat who brought the probity and visionary transformation in EC
True and bold administrators vanish from the minds. We need leaders like him. If anybody fights corruption he is a dictatorial megalomaniac.
But alleged AIADMK cadres in Tamil Nadu who were unhappy over his reformist moves, unleashed violence against him when he visited Chennai at that time.