Capping Political Parties’ Poll Spends: Will It Work?
The Election Commission of India is reported to have “proposed to the Law Ministry that a ceiling may be stipulated on election expenditure by political parties towards Parliamentary or Assembly…
Electoral transparency and integrity
Transparency, disclosure, integrity and reform across India’s electoral system.
Simultaneous polls idea naive
The Chronology of Subterfuge on Amending the FCRA
Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi admitted on live TV that the repealed FCRA 1976 was amended retrospectively to save BJP and Congress from prosecution. The current saga of the FCRA (Foreign…
Simultaneous Elections: Striking at the Roots of Parliamentary Democracy
It has become an article of faith with Prime Minister Narendra Modi that elections must be held concurrently to the Lok Sabha and the State assemblies – ostensibly to achieve…
Simultaneous Elections: Striking at the Roots of Parliamentary Democracy
In Gujarat assembly election, voters preferred wealthy candidates over less wealthy ones
Money Alone Can’t Buy Better Policing, What Is Needed Is More Autonomy
The Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF) scheme, recently approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security, has no mention of the men and women who form the police force. ‘For revamp…
Prof Jagdeep Chhokar, Former Faculty IIM Ahmedabad at IACVA URGENT ELECTORAL REFORMS SEMINAR
A seminar on URGENT ELECTORAL REFORMS was organised by IAC Volunteers Association (IACVA) under the aegis of Shri Anna Hazare ji on 16th April 2017 at India Habitat Center, New…
Independence Day: There has been a steady dip in democratic values – Jagdeep Chhokar
It wasn’t merely independence from subjugation by a foreign power that India achieved 70 years ago. With an independent democracy, its citizens also won the right to shape their own…
Sentiment And Justice
Past efforts at out-of-court resolution of Ayodhya dispute have been non-starters It is neither possible nor advisable to disregard the Supreme Court of India since Article 141 of the Constitution…