As the new government is coming in place in the next fewdays, it seems that the outgoing government has left behind a trail ofdestruction of the great institutions that makers of modern India built overthe decades.
After RBI, CBI, SC, CVC now it is Election Commission. Anysane rationale person in India do not need further teaching how these greatinstitutions have been demolished one after another.
No Indians will need any pushing to know how one afteranother institution's autonomy have been destroyed. It is abundantly clear thatmain agenda of the Narendra Modi government was not to run the country between2014-19 but to destroy these great institutions one by one so that from 2019 itcan run the country as they want.
Latest is the Election Commission. Since T.N Seshan walkedinto this red brick building, the ordinary people of India had blinding truston the impartiality of the Election Commission.
One after another Chief Election Commissioner maintained thetradition but now it is wide open that Chief Election commissioner and otherElection commissioner are in warpath with one recused them from all meeting.
The charge leveled by one of the three was that EC hadbecome lame duck before the Prime Minister and not only it okayed allobjections against the Prime Minister but also refused to put on dissentcomment left by one of the commissioner Ashok Lavasa.
As differences within the Election Commission spilled intothe open with election commissioner Ashok Lavasa deciding to stay away fromfuture meetings if dissent notes were not recorded, chief election commissionerSunil Arora on Saturday sought to downplay the controversy.
"The three members of the ECI are not expected to betemplate or clones of each other. There have been so many times in the pastwhen there has been a vast diversion (sic) as it can and should be," Arora saidin a statement.
Lavasa, who had disagreed with the decision to clear theModi-Shah duopoly of all charges of model code of conduct violations,reportedly informed Arora this week that he would attend future meetings oncomplaints only if dissent notes and minority decisions were included in thefinal orders. His dissent against the clean chits to Modi-Shah had not beenrecorded.
For the first time in decades everybody except the rulingparty thinks that the Election Commission was not longer impartial and thatwould directly affect results of the election.
If this is true, this is also the end of the beautifuldemocracy, we are so proud of.
