why is election free and fare in india
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it is the human right . Every citizens gain right of voting after 18 years
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All will agree that whenever we talk of fair and free elections, we think of a gentleman named Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan. As the 10th chief election commissioner (CEC) of India from 1990-1996, he was literally a one-man crusading army, loved by the masses but feared by the political establishments.
Ironically, the efforts that he made to cleanse the election process in the country, earned him a rather degrading sobriquet, ‘maverick’. Obviously the political class never liked his style of functioning and even made attempts to derail his efforts. In October 1993, Parliament amended the Constitution and added two additional commissioners to share power with the chief election commissioner – a move that was contested by Seshan. He prevailed briefly but the final order of SC finally ruled that the position of the chief commissioner vis-à-vis the two other commissioners was “no more than that of the first among equals” and that they were all equally placed. Typical of Seshan, he said the SC order would only render the EC “impotent and a eunuch.”
Ironically, the efforts that he made to cleanse the election process in the country, earned him a rather degrading sobriquet, ‘maverick’. Obviously the political class never liked his style of functioning and even made attempts to derail his efforts. In October 1993, Parliament amended the Constitution and added two additional commissioners to share power with the chief election commissioner – a move that was contested by Seshan. He prevailed briefly but the final order of SC finally ruled that the position of the chief commissioner vis-à-vis the two other commissioners was “no more than that of the first among equals” and that they were all equally placed. Typical of Seshan, he said the SC order would only render the EC “impotent and a eunuch.”
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