Sixty years of Election Commission of India
Since a person can't represent two constituencies or become member of both parliament and state assembly, no person should be allowed to contest from more than one constituency or for both parliament and state assembly.
IT IS a matter of satisfaction that party-leaders in general expressed respect towards Election Commission during their informal chat at celebration of sixty years of Election Commission in India. But mere words of praise ignoring recommendations for even petty but important poll-reforms from Election Commission is regretting. For example till Women Reservation Bill is passed by the parliament, Union government should accept poll-commission formula for making it compulsory for political parties to give at least one-third party tickets to women.
Since a person can’t represent two constituencies or become member of both parliament and state assembly, no person should be allowed to contest from more than one constituency or for both parliament and state assembly. A sitting MP/MLA should resign first from his earlier post before filing nomination for the other seat. Parliamentarians on being appointed ministers in states should automatically lose their parliament seat and vice versa. Security-losing persons should be barred from contesting elections for next six years.
Much has been talked about ‘fixed term legislatures’ and for simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and state assemblies. But this can only be made possible by electing Prime Minister/Chief Ministers by secret and compulsory vote of MPs/MLAs through electronic voting machines (EVMs) on nominations signed by at least one-third members. Such an elected PM/CM may be removed by the same process but with compulsion of naming alternate leader in the same motion. Even speakers and deputy speakers should be elected simultaneously with chief ministers in the same manner. Arm-twisting in coalition governments like done by smaller parties may not then be possible.
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