In recent times, the politics in our country has gone to new low. Use of foul language, black money, paid news, horse trading of members etc. has risen now an utter need of political reforms. Only with that now we can expect the politics of our country to be fair.
Regulation of Money flow & voter trading During election period:-
For free & fair elections, it is very important to implement stricter reforms to curtail money flow & voter trading during election period. The money & freebies intended for distribution to voters sized by the police is to be tracked down and an enquiry to be ordered by the district magistrate and a report to be submitted to the SEC. Based on the report the accused are to tried and if found guilty the candidate should to be banned from contesting elections for next 5 years in and if the elected candidate is found guilty, his election should be set aside and he should be banned from contesting elections for next 2 terms.
Media:-
No contesting candidate should directly or indirectly have a stake in any of the Print/Electronic media houses enjoying considerable circulation or readership. No candidate should directly or indirectly favour media houses in terms of monetary favour (Except for Paid Advertisements during elections) or any other kind of favour which can be related to monetary value. Any elected candidate proven holding stake in any media house or favouring through non monetary terms which can be related to monetary value should be disqualified immediately and banned from contesting elections for next 2 terms. Media is a responsible medium through which true information is passed on to
the citizens. Parties and candidates are influencing Media houses either by completely holding media houses or having stakes in them or by favouring media houses by offering various sops to certain media houses when in government there by influencing the media houses to report favourable news. This is no less than indirect buying of public mandate.
This has been overlooked or disregarded by the Election Commission.
Criminal Free Politics:-
Any individual who has been tried by any court and has been punished with imprisonment for more than 2 years for offences which include,
Murder, Rape, Money laundering etc should be banned from contesting elections and any such elected representative who enjoys the office has been proved guilty of any offence after taking the office, election of such candidate should be set aside and he should be banned from contesting election.
Regulation of Registration and De- Registration of Political Parties:-
There is no provision for De-Registration of a Political Party with Election Commission. Election Commission of India should be authorized to De-register political parties practicing antinational, anti-social, anti-citizen & anti-democratic customs. Many organizations are forming political outfits and abusing democratic process by compromising with other established political parties to make fortunes for themselves.
Resignation to office:-
Disqualifying elected representatives and impose ban on him/her from contesting elections for the next 2 terms if any Legislator or MP resigns to his post more than once during his tenure of 5 years stating irrelevant causes for resignation except on grounds of proved negligence by the government to his constituency or on the medical grounds (Only under serious medical conditions which leaves him unfit to carry his/her duties). Candidates are abusing the democracy by resigning their posts on the name of self respect and to test their acceptance, popularity for their next elections and to prove their sustained or evaluated majority among the public. This way for every re-election, govt. is loosing public money for organizing re-elections. Some legislators are blackmailing
government in the name of resignations to gain ministerial births and prominent posts.
Cap on Political Parties Expenditure in Elections:-
There is no provision for cap on expenditure by Political Parties during election period. There is an immediate need of cap on expenditure by Political Parties during election period to curtail money flow and
freebies by respective parties to the voters which are jeopardizing the democratic process.
Progress Report on Constituency by respective candidates:-
Every MLA and MP should submit a Year wise progress report on his constituency to the respective state Assembly and Parliament. These progress reports should be made public by the speakers. Till date there is no procedure for accountability of elected representatives. Every elected representative should be made accountable and answerable to voters who elected him as their representative before he goes to seek votes in next elections.
Disclosure of source of Income by contesting candidates & Elected
representatives:-
Every contesting candidate in his affidavit should disclose his sources
of Income in the affidavit filed by him. Every elected representative should also disclose his source of income & that of his family members every year to the election commission.
India, still being a developing country is mainly due to unfair means in politics. Unfair politics leads to non development, unemployment, poverty, bad health and these all make the country non progressive. So, it’s the need of the time to make political reforms and implement it strongly for a better future.
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