-The Hindu The Election Commission might be well-intentioned in seeking to ban opinion polls in the run-up to an election, but the move does not seem to be sound in law, and is certainly not desirable in practice. The reasoning for a ban is that opinion polls influence voters prior to polling, and therefore the results of such polls should be withheld until after the end of voting. Needless to say,...
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Let's All Come To The Party-Anjali Bhardwaj, Amrita Johri and Shekhar Singh
-Outlook Transparency promotes democracy, more the reason for political parties to come under RTI Act's purview There was great public outrage when legislators in Mumbai beat up an assistant police inspector because he stopped an MLA's car for speeding on the Bandra-Worli sealink. The sentiment was: What arrogance! How can lawmakers have so little respect for the laws they themselves made? However, the amendment in Parliament aimed at removing political parties...
More »EC may allow freebies in manifestos if targeted at weaker sections -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Accepting the argument of political parties that poll promises or "freebies" are related to the Directive Principles of State Policy, the Election Commission is considering a pragmatic set of guidelines that would allow freebies as long as they are targeted at the economically and socially weaker sections, religious minorities, women and populations living in remote, border or insurgency/disaster-hit areas. Directive principles are broad policy guidelines considered...
More »Why the CPI says no to RTI -S Sudhakar Reddy
-The Indian Express But parties can be made to disclose their finances compulsorily We have received a number of inquiries about the CPI's position on bringing parties under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The decision of the Central Information Commission (CIC) that political parties should come under the RTI, as they receive a substantial amount of financial help from the government, has been rejected by all parties. Many eyebrows were raised...
More »Cheap rice won't make people lazy, CM Siddaramaiah says -Naheed Ataulla
-The Times of India BANGALORE: Rice is all set to change Karnataka politically. The Congress's rice-atone-rupee scheme will come alive at 10am on Wednesday when chief minister Siddaramaiah symbolically offers the foodgrain to the people. The scheme, christened Anna Bhagya, will offer 30 kilos of rice at Re 1 a kilo to 8.7 million BPL (below poverty line) families in the state. The first big public splash after the Congress's return to...
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