The 2019 Lok Sabha election has seen the Supreme Court intervene time and again with the Election Commission (EC) to do the right thing. The court gave judicial recognition to the EC’s long-felt apprehensions about the lack of transparency in the government’s much-touted electoral bonds scheme. Earlier, only one EVM in an Assembly segment/constituency was subject to random VVPAT verification. “Not only political parties but the poor and the illiterate should be satisfied,” the apex court had observed in its order. The court has asked the EC to respond to a plea that cash for vote is on the rise in Tamil Nadu and denies “an equal voice for some voters and an equal chance for some candidates.”The interventions of the apex court continue.

Source: The Hindu April 21, 2019 17:59 UTC