Jan 7
Aam Aadmi Party has approached the Election Commission seeking removal of anomalies in the voters list of Delhi. A Party delegation led by AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, yesterday met the Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath and Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi Chandra Bhushan Kumar and submitted a memorandum claiming that around 4 lakh fake voters are in the national capital. It also demanded action against Booth Level Officers for the discrepancies in the voters list. Later briefing reporters, Kejriwal also urged the poll body to conduct a probe in the issue.
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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