Tag: Former CEC Quraishi

By Mohd Asim Khan, New Delhi : The idea of holding simultaneous polls to Parliament and the state assemblies -- for which Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others have been strongly pitching -- is good but has very low practicality in the real world, former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi has said. He also slammed the government's move to introduce electoral bonds, which would only make political funding more opaque and end public scrutiny. "The idea (of simultaneous polls) is good, and the two major reasons cited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi...