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    Anna Hazare says no statutory status for Election Commissioner, calls for 'right to reject'

    New Delhi, Feb 23 (ANI): Veteran social activist Anna Hazare and his team on Thursday demanded that 'right to reject' option be included in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and that two Election Commissioners be given constitutional status like the Chief Election Commissioner.

    Team Anna met the Chief Election Commissioner, S Y Qureshi, here today, and voiced its support for barring candidates against whom a court has framed charges, from contesting elections.

    Hazare after the meeting told the media here that 'right to reject' was very important, and emphasized that it would help in cleansing the electoral scenario.

    When asked to comment on reports about government plans to take the power from the Commission to oversee implementation of Model Code of Conduct, Hazare said: "This is wrong. The Election Commission is an independent body. The government should not have any hold on the body. If there is interference, then the body will lose it power. If the government does so, then there is no point in talking about independence of the Election Commission."

    Hazare further said the two Election Commissioners should also be given the same status.

    "Now only the CEC enjoys constitutional status. He cannot be removed at the whims and fancies of the government. The other two do not have this status. They should also get it," he said.

    Hazare further said right to reject should be brought in before the next Lok Sabha elections.

    Meanwhile, former IPS officer and Team Anna member Kiran Bedi said there was no need for bringing the right to reject issue in Parliament, as it just need an amendment in rules.

    "The matter is pending with the Law Ministry since 2001. What is needed is a rule amendment. It just needs a notification," she said.

    eam Anna members Santosh Hegde, Prashant Bhushan and Arvind Kejriwal were also present in today's meeting. (ANI)

     

    2 comments

    • devendra b  •  3 months ago
      ACADEMIC & JUDICIAL CORRUPTIONS
      An old saying that a country/institution which does not give justice to its people or which does not regard its learned ones, gets ruined sooner or later. A very strong corruption control law is most needed in whimsical judiciary and academics as documented herein. IITs NOT BEING WORLD CLASS INSTITUTIONS because it is well on record that IIT Roorkee’s once famous Civil Engineering Department had about a dozen full fledged professors who could never earn a Ph.D. degree or publish any significant research papers despite their best efforts and fullest administrative backing and this fact was well known to the Ministry of Education (now MHRD) who never viewed this truth with any kindness. On top of this, the academic administration of this IIT (the oldest former technical Higher Learning University of India/Asia), backed also by such non-PhD jealous virus professors, sabotaged (including plagiarizing) the research work of the highly internationally renowned professor colleague through all kinds of possible illegal actions manifested by as many as 20 to 30 writ petitions filed to nullify the illegal actions repeatedly taken without any regard of natural justice. These are well recorded facts also known to the MHRD. If an institutional index (integrated effect of the various Institutional components including the credentials of the faculty) or teacher/faculty index (integrated effect of the research potential, teaching ability, qualifications, etc of every faculty member) for all IITs are worked out and compared with world class Institutions, then the truth will come out. Merit is totally disregarded in the Indian system as manifested by the fact that India is branded as a developing third world country despite the fact that it has the highest manpower of highly qualified hard working genius persons in almost all disciplines in the entire world or on world basis. Numerous examples will show that the merited ones in India will find their habitat only in the dust-bins. If India can rise above caste, region, and relative considerations and sincerely rely on merit then alone the IITs would become world class Institutions. A research paper entitled “A NEW METHOD OF EVALUATING TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH TEACHERS’ by Prof. Devendra S. Bhargava, published in the International Journal for Development Technology, England, Vol.5, 1987 pp.27-38, contents of which were comprehensively highlighted by the PTI news flash, can be of great help to compare the various IITs, their faculty, and their nearness to the world class. An Institution’s three main pillars, viz. the faculty, the students and the reputation are interdependent. This is proved by the fact that now the best students do not opt for Roorkee IIT which was in news for vulgar activities too. This Institution manipulated to pass a twice failed student and encouraged students to pressurize their teachers for 90% marks. A recent case example manifests glorifies and testifies this aspect when the Hon’ble UttraKhand High Court at Nainital upheld (after intensive arguments) a reply to a RTI query made in the year 2007 that “an information pertaining to the year 1994 was more than twenty years old in the year 2007” (vide the Writ Petition No.726 of the year 2008) and such a whimsically arbitrary judgment could be given because the Hon’ble courts in India are not obliged to give reasons for their decision or judgment. SuperGodly whims manifest communist regime
    • KC  •  New Delhi, Delhi  •  3 months ago
      I really appreciate Anna Team for the recommendations to cleans the electoral scenario., but looks very difficult for its implementation by the govt., the reasons are best known to leaders.
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