Hold fresh polls where NOTA got most votes: petition
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An advocate has moved the Supreme Court for a route that fresh elections needs to be held in a constituency where NOTA (‘None of the above’ possibility) garnered the utmost variety of votes. Besides, not one of the candidates who misplaced to NOTA needs to be allowed to contest the fresh polls.
Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay mentioned political events selected candidates with out consulting the voters, which was a “truly undemocratic” course of. In flip, if the voters has rejected these candidates by voting for NOTA, the events needs to be barred from fielding them once more within the fresh polls. The events ought to settle for that the voters have already made their discontent loud and clear.
“Right to reject and elect new candidate will give power to the people to express their discontent … Right to reject will check corruption, criminalisation, casteism, communalism … parties would be forced to give tickets to honest and patriotic candidates,” Mr. Upadhyay reasoned.
He contended that the ‘right to reject’ was first proposed by the Law Commission in 1999. “It also suggested that the candidates be declared elected only if they have obtained 50%+1 of the valid votes cast. Similarly, the Election Commission endorsed ‘Right to Reject’, first in 2001, under James Lyngdoh [the then CEC], and then in 2004 under T.S. Krishnamurthy [the then CEC], in its Proposed Electoral Reforms,” the petition mentioned.
The ‘Background Paper on Electoral Reforms’, ready by the Ministry of Law in 2010, had proposed that if sure proportion of the vote was detrimental, then election outcome needs to be nullified and new election held, the petition mentioned.
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