‘Election Commission Gives Agnipariksha During Every Poll’: CEC Rajiv Kumar

Bengaluru: Election Commission of India (ECI) offers `Agnipariskha` each election regardless of having performed 400 Assembly elections, 17 common elections, and 16 Presidential and Vice Presidential polls, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar mentioned. He was responding to a query on the free and truthful elections right here on Saturday. ECI accomplished the milestone of getting performed 400 meeting polls in simply concluded polls in three northeastern states — Tripura, Meghalaya, and Nagaland, he identified.

CEC Kumar whereas responding to a query on the difficulty of whether or not the individuals of Karnataka can belief it for a free and truthful election, and mentioned, “The Election Commission of India recently completed 400th State Assembly election in Tripura, Meghalaya, and Nagaland, 17 times election to the parliament and 16 times Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections. Results are accepted election after election and the transition of power each time has been smoothly done by ballot.”

CEC mentioned that within the final 70 years India has stabilised its social, cultural, political, geographical, financial, linguistic points peacefully and thru dialogue primarily due to established democracy which is feasible solely as a result of individuals belief election outcomes. “Still ECI gives `Agnipariskha` every time after each election,” he mentioned.

The CEC was in Karnataka along with his group on a three-day go to to verify the preparedness of the following Assembly polls. The time period of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly is until May 24, 2023. So, the brand new Assembly needs to be in place, and elections should be accomplished previous to that. Kumar mentioned that each one senior residents above 80 and folks with incapacity will get a vote-from-home choice within the Karnataka Assembly elections. For the document, within the 2018 Assembly elections, BJP gained 104 seats and emerged as the one largest celebration, whereas the Congress and JD(S) bagged 78 and 37 seats, respectively.