Allow EC to deregister parties: QuraishiFormer Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi on Sunday called for a ban on opinion polls and also suggested counting of votes from the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips instead of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and change in the appointment process of the Election Commission. In his lecture on the need for electoral reforms organised by the Capital Foundation on the occasion of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer’s birth anniversary, Mr. Quraishi said the EC had been a “powerful neutral umpire” and never missed a deadline for elections. You have seen how they vitiate the purity of the election process,” he said.

Source: The Hindu November 15, 2020 20:57 UTC