A NATURAL question may arise in the minds of the people of our nation whether High Powered Statutory Autonomous Body (HPSAB) monitoring the performances of the government is more powerful than the voting power of the people of our nation. No, HPSAB can never be so. But, these special powers of HPSAB are required to emphasise and create a better tradition of government’s performance and check and balance for holding a free and fair election to the maximum extent. It has been experienced from the past that all the elections that are conducted, the winning party or parties’ members are not elected by the process of fearless, free and fair election.

I’ll further continue after the seven points in my last article:

8. No third term to form the government either of state or nation by the same party/parties as said above will be allowed constitutionally, unless targets of performance are achieved, even in the case of winning the election with a majority number of seats. In such situation, opposition party or any alliance of parties should be given a chance to form the government. This is applicable also after first term of government.

9. No leader can do any propaganda of his own party’s assurance/assurances or his assurance/assurances, which have not been done or implemented practically. Assurance for programme of work, which can surely be implemented can only be given to the public only by the elected member or candidate for election. Otherwise he or she will be under the allegation of breach of trust or cheating case.

Method of voting:

Now, the next vital point comes, which is the best method of voting that can be implemented replacing the existing one.

The main drawback of the present voting system is that it can not be done freely avoiding rigging, booth-jam, intimidating the honest and genuine voters not to appear to vote, so that rigging of votes can be done smoothly. Sometimes, to make the voting environment panicky, a few anti-party supporters are physically assaulted and sometimes murdered also. This untoward incident is very common in Bihar, West Bengal, Tripura, Jharkhand and few other states. As a result, true picture of voters’ fearless, free and frank opinion can not be known through existing system of voting. The ruling party or parties make a network of making a forced vote in favour of them by the anti-social elements, goonda bahini, cadres of ruling party/parties armed with all fire arms with the direct and indirect support of administration of the ruling government. This state of affairs have already been witnessed by the Election Commission’s Observers during the last elections (2004) at all levels ie Parliament, state assembly, municipality and panchayat elections. It is a very difficult job to innovate an ideal method of voting and avoid those anti-voting activities. However, there is nothing wrong to offer some new proposals of secret voting so that the above said drawbacks can be avoided and to the maximum extent, a flawless and peaceful method of secret voting system can be evaluated for the interest of democracy of the largest democratic country of the world. Let us have an honest attempt to find out a probable better system of voting for the above said elections.

• To ensure that all anti-social elements, criminalsand other doubtful anti-social persons are arrested before 15 days and kept under jail custody till the new government is formed.
• Military or para-military personnel will check the voters with authorised photo ID and address ID just before reaching the voting machine for ensuring that they are genuine voters.
• Section 144 should be clamped down, ins and outs of each booth should be manned with necessary powers for controlling the mob to be given to the in charge of the booth to ensure fearless, free and fair election.
• Election duties during voting days should be withdrawn from the local (state) government administration and the same must be conducted by the military or paramilitary personnel under full control of the President of India.
• Election Commission will be fully authorised to conduct all types of elections implementing the above modifications and recommendations for fearless, free and fair election to protect the purity and spirit of the democracy of our nation at any cost.

Value Added Politics(VAP):

It is assumed that the above recommendations will certainly check the socially and legally bad people from becoming a part of the house of representatives at different level of governments and thus help creation of a healthy atmosphere to establish Value Added Politics (VAP) in India to protect the largest institution of democracy in the world from all types of criminals and their activities.

Election of two representatives from a single constituency will save a considerable amount of money, time and administrative activities in the case of re-election and also generate a competitive attitude amongst the elected members in respect of their performances.

Ministry along with Houses(Parliament and Assembly) of the concerned government (state or central ) should be dissolved before three months from the date of election and President Rule will be promulgated and continue till the new government is formed.