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Is our Democracy Drifting ?

 




The Election Commission of India (ECI) was designed to be the ultimate, unyielding referee of the world’s largest democratic exercise, to ensure absolute electoral integrity Originally it was a  single-member body, subsequently it  expanded into a three-member panel comprising the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and two Election Commissioners, However be the last General election committee was modified to  consist the Prime Minister, a Union Minister, and the Leader of the Opposition. This exposed the intent of the Govt in power However, questions raised never answered. Today  the entire Nation knows the intent behind dropping CJ from the selection committee The independent foundation of the nation's apex watchdog today stands severely compromised .Today this institutional vulnerability has pushed our self proclaimed "Mother of Democracy" into a storm of global scrutiny, shaming our legacy of democratic pride. 

Headlines across the globe have focused on the commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR), a sweeping digital cleanup that led to the provisional removal of a staggering 130 million names from the voter rolls, disproportionately striking marginalized and migrant populations who lacked complex residency documentation Worse still, the crisis has fractured the commission from within An Indian Express report revealed that sitting Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi formally had  recorded objections 14 times against unilateral decisions pushed through by CEC Gyanesh Kumar regarding database control and voter registration formats . This has now sparked massive nationwide  public protests, putting  our entire democratic heritage to shame 

The Nation should demand (a) structural remedies: transforming the appointment panel to include the Chief Justice of India, (b) Open-data auditing for all voter roll modifications,(c ) Unanimous tri-partite consensus among all three commissioners for any database alterations 

It is now well documented and acknowledged fact that the 3 Election commissioners are dummies. Removing any of them will not work. What will work is the resignation of the “Masterminds" that run it.

What the Nation needs is absolute transparency and public accountability. Our Democracy will never fade away. It can rise up from the ashes and stand tall. The roots of the world's largest democracy are far too deep to ever let any "Political Power" fail it It was sheer pathetic to see the senior spokesperson of BJP claiming that Gyanesh Kumar to be the Lord Ganesa. Is the Nation running out on "political sanity" ..!



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