Chief Election Commissioner: (CEC) Rajiv Kumar said the Election Commission (EC) is working on a plan to give voting rights to overseas Indians. Granting voting rights and including overseas Indians in the Indian democratic system has been a long pending demand and now the EC is working on fulfilling the same.
He interacted with the 2022 batch of Indian Foreign Service (IFS) Officer Trainees (OTs) on the theme ‘India – the Mother of Democracies and Role of ECI’.
The CEC told the IFS officers that India, which is the fifth largest economy in the world, should invoke technology-driven methodology to facilitate its over 1.34 crore overseas voters to participate in elections via an electronically transmitted postal ballot system.
“To make this plan a reality, the role of the IFS and our High Commissions/embassies located worldwide, would be vital,” he said.
The CEC spoke about what makes the Indian democracy vibrant and how it has been thriving since 1952.
Chief Election Commissioner: “In the last 72 years, India has seen 17 general elections to the Lower House of Parliament and more than 400 elections to the State Legislative Assemblies with the universal acceptance of the electoral mandate and smooth transfer of power after each and every election,” he said.
Rajiv Kumar told the IFS trainee officers that EC was leading the world democracies under the “Cohort on Election Integrity”.
“Elections in India are in fact the world’s biggest peacetime exercise in terms of logistics and manpower,” he said.
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