Governance And Policy

Relying on the investigation by Indian Express, the petition under Article 32 alleges that the CEC Gyanesh Kumar exercised the Commission’s collective powers without knowledge or approval of the other Election Commissioners

India has spent considerable effort expanding access to formal credit. The challenge is how to recover the debt which is unsecured and below INR 20 lakh? There is hardly any clarity in law how to effectively recover the money when that credit fails.

People of India specially the youth steeled with courage to save the Constitution cannot be suppressed by police clamp down to exercise their fundamental right to protest demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar to quit office

The Bench also flagged concerns about Jantar Mantar as the protest site, noting the lack of basic facilities and the very small area available.

SIR generated disenfranchisement of millions, Election Commission of India’s unilateral modification of Form 6 admittedly under the cover of approval of Supreme Court which denies having given any such approval and grossly inadequate measures to deal with the fate of deleted voters has fatally imperilled democracy. The restoration of deleted voters in electoral roll, if at all done by a compromised ECI, has meant, in Mahatma Gandhi’s words, “sending a reprieve after hanging”

Justice Nariman’s anxieties that right to vote, as heart of democracy, is in peril and Justice Bhuyan’s concerns that mass scale disenfranchisement reverses the first step taken to achieve equality in India through right to vote deserve serious consideration to save democracy in India

Bench headed by CJI Surya Kant refuses to restrain him from functioning or to insist on unanimous EC decisions for now, and seeks replies from the Centre, the Election Commission and the Commissioners.

Ambedkar confessed in 1949 that the Drafting Committee and the Constituent Assembly suffered intense headache to find ways and means of protecting ECI’s independent status. Independent functioning of ECI till Modi assumed power provided remedy to that headache which sadly has become intense and unbearable because of CEC Kumar’s partisan functioning.