APPENDIX-XIII

(Vide Para 12.2)

GIST OF ADDITIONAL PROPOSALS ON ELECTORAL REFORMS

 

A. CANDIDATES

  1. Lowering the age of candidates contesting elections to the Legislative Assembly and Lok Sabha from 25 years to 21 years and in case of elections to the Legislative Councils and Councils of States from 30 years to 25 years.
  2. Restriction on contesting election from more than one constituency.
  3. Automatic disqualification of a person found guilty of corrupt practice.
  4. Enhancement of required minimum number of valid votes polled to save security deposit from 'one-sixth' to 'one-fourth'.

B. POLITICAL PARTIES

  1. Compulsory maintenance of accounts by political parties and audit thereof by agencies specified by the Election Commission.
  2. Ban on donations by companies to political parties.
  3. Registration and De-registration of political parties strengthening of existing provisions.
  4. Regulating reservation and allotment of election symbols by a law of Parliament.

C. ROTATION OF SEATS

  1. Rotation of seats reserved for Scheduled Castes candidates.
  2. Rotation of general seats in certain North Eastern States where majority of seats are reserved for Scheduled Tribes.

D. ELECTION EXPENSES

  1. The expenditure incurred by a political party etc., to be included in the election expenses of a candidate for purposes of ceiling on election expenses.
  2. Empowering Election Commission to fix ceiling on election expenses before every general election.

E. STATE FUNDING

  1. State Funding of elections-extent and manner thereof.

F. ELECTORAL SYSTEM

  1. Change of present electoral system to Majoritarian system/List system/Mixed system/any other system.
  2. Making voting compulsory.

G. MODEL CODE OF CONDUCT

  1. Statutory backing to provisions of Part-VII of the Model Code of Conduct.

H. ANTI-DEFECTION LAW

  1. Amendment of Anti-Defection Law.

I. ENHANCEMENT OF POWER OF ELECTION COMMISSION

  1. Empowering Election Commission to countermand an election on report from any Election Observer in addition to Returning Officer.
  2. Empowering Election Commission to issue instructions and to make recommendations in connection with elections.

J. ELECTION COMMISSION AND ITS MACHINERY

  1. Mobilisation of employees of Public Sector Undertakings, autonomous bodies, statutory and non-statutory bodies aided by the Government etc., for election duties as also to provide that employees of such bodies including local authorities could also be deployed for election duties outside their State.
  2.  Mode of appointment of Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners.
  3. The Chief Election commissioner and other Election commissioners to be made ineligible for further appointment under the Government.
  4. (i) Independent Secretariat for Election Commission of India on the lines of Lok Sabha Secretariat; and

(ii) whether the expenses of the Election Commission should be “charged” on Consolidated Fund of India.

  1. Chief Electoral Officer of every State exclusively for election work.

 

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