New Delhi: A petition has been submitted at the Supreme Court who is looking for the direction of the Indian General Election Commission (ECI) to seize the symbol of the election or register a promising political party or distribute “irrational free” from public funds before elections.
It is said that there must be a total prohibition on such populist steps to get unworthy political assistance from voters because they violate the constitution and ECI must take appropriate prevention steps.
Request urges the court to state that the promise of irrational free of public funds before the election is too influential voters, disrupting the level of playing field and reducing the purity of the polling process.
The petition submitted by Advocates Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay has, as an alternative, looking for directions to the center to enforce laws in this case.
“The Petitioner submitted a trend of recent political parties to influence voters by offering free goods with elections not only the biggest threat to the survival of democratic values ​​but also wounding the Spirit of the Constitution,” said the request submitted through Advocates Ashwani Kumar .
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“This unethical practice is the same as giving bribes to voters at a decisive cost to remain in power and must be avoided to preserve democratic principles and practices,” he said.
The petition also looks for directions to ECI to include additional conditions in the relevant paragraphs of the symbol of selection (reservation and allotment), the 1968 sequence, which is related to the conditions of recognition as the state party, that “political parties do not promise” / distribute free free from public funds before Election ” Made by certain political parties in the process of polling the ongoing assembly in several countries.
The Petitioner said that the complained point of democracy was the process of selecting and distribution of money and the promise of Freebies had reached a concerned level with the election twice.
“The applicant handed over that promises arbitrary irrational temptation It violates ECI’s mandate for general elections and fair and distributing personal goods services, which are not for public purposes, from public funds clearly violating Article 14, 162, 266 (3) and 282 of the Constitution, “he said.