War criminals and election
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The Election Commission has again expressed the "wish" not to allow the war criminals to participate in the election, provided the court gives ruling as to who are the war criminals. The " wish " need not be elaborated for public understanding. This provisional "wish" is nothing but another gimmick of the EC. We sincerely hope and request the EC to kindly bring the "cat" out of their bag and relieve the nation of the physiological pressure and cynicism built up by the EC's behaviour. The scenario of election preparation is not the one the nation expected to see. To put the train back on track, kindly show us clear identifiable evidence that the preparation of the voter list of all the constituencies is progressing as it should be. The average figure of percentage of progress has no bearing on the actual requirement of the draft and final voter list which we have not heard so far. Kindly tell us the progress constituency by constituency including the progress of work on printing the voter list. I still continue to keep my fingers crossed with regard to Photo ID for all eligible voters in the country. We have a comparable benchmark, the last voter list, to compare the success of the present voter list preparation. The separate EC secretariat is yet to be set up. We hope the EC would wake up and do substantial work to hold general election as soon as possible, but not later than December 2008.
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