A new report by eminent citizens who reviewed the election system in the country has flagged concerns such as the exclusion of vulnerable groups from electoral rolls, money power in polls promoting an economic oligarchy and selective enforcement of the model code of conduct.
The Citizens’ Commission on Elections, an NGO, released its second volume of “An Inquiry into India’s Election System” on Monday.
The NGO is chaired by former Supreme Court judge Madan B. Lokur and includes former IAS officers Wajahat Habibullah, Sundar Burra and M.G. Devasahayam, and retired Madras High Court judge Hariparanthaman as well as several academics and journalists.
ECI s Conduct of 2019 Elections Raises Grave Doubts About Its Fairness: Citizens Report
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The Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO: Activists Mark 50th Anniversary of Daring FBI Break-in
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NERMEEN SHAIKH: Today, we will spend the rest of the hour unraveling one of the great mysteries of the Vietnam War era. On March 8th, 1971, a group of eight activists, including a cab driver, a daycare director and two professors, broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every document they found. The activists, calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, soon began leaking shocking details about FBI abuses to the media. Among the documents was one that bore the mysterious word ”COINTELPRO.”
50 Years Ago, Activists Broke Into an FBI Office and Revealed COINTELPRO Abuses
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