Watch | 'PM Modi Would've Been Told About the Mess in Election Commission': Three Prominent Voices on Electoral Democracy
"PM Modi would have been told about the mess in Election Commission," two former election officials and a rights activist indicate in an interview with Karan Thapar for The Wire, in light of The Indian Express exposé of the functioning of the Election Commission. They are former chief election commissioner S.Y. Quraishi, former election commissioner Ashok Lavasa and national convener of Bharat Jodo Abhiyaan, Yogendra Yadav.
The Express report raises fundamental issues. Was the Commission functioning as a one man operation? How much of this was known to the Modi government? Should the SIR exercise be scrapped and reversed? Did Election Commissioners Sandhu and Joshi do everything they could have or did they fall short? And is it time for Gyanesh Kumar to resign as Chief Election Commissioner? These are some of the issues discussed in the interview.
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