The Election Commission has written a letter to former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi to tell him that a newspaper article he wrot...
The Election Commission has written a letter to former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi to tell him that a newspaper article he wrote last week was ironic because violations of the Model Code of Conduct during his own tenure had received no legal action. In his article in The Indian Express on February 8, Quraishi had wondered why the poll panel had not filed cases against politicians who indulged in hate speech ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections.
Sandeep Saxena, the senior deputy election commissioner, told Quraishi in a letter that the Election Commission was planning to publish a compilation of actions taken against politicians who violated the Model Code of Conduct in state or national elections during the last 20 years, The Indian Express reported. Saxena attached with the letter a list of instances of such violations during Quraishi’s tenure as the chief election commissioner, and the actions taken against them.
“You may kindly like to peruse the same,” Saxena told Quraishi, who was in the top post from July 2010 to June 2012. “It would be seen from the enclosed list that no action was taken by the then Commission during this period under Section 123 of RP Act/153 IPC. It is rather...
