Electoral Reforms: EC mulls for One Candidate One Constituency

Recently, the Election Commission (EC) proposed the Ministry of Law & Justice to limit the seats from which a candidate can contest to just one.

• Earlier EC had made a proposal to the government in 2004 and 2016 to amend the provisions of the concerned Act to restrict the candidate to contest from one constituency.

Rationale behind the Proposal: Waste of Resource and Time: There have been several cases where a person contests election from two constituencies, and wins from both. However, as per law the candidates have to vacate the seat in one of the two constituencies.

Thus, puts unavoidable financial burden on the public exchequer.