{"id":40031,"date":"2015-11-23T18:11:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T12:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=40031"},"modified":"2015-11-24T03:12:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T21:42:38","slug":"sc-agrees-to-hear-plea-for-electoral-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-agrees-to-hear-plea-for-electoral-reforms","title":{"rendered":"SC agrees to hear plea for electoral reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38395\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/SUPREME_COURT_2426338f.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38395\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-to-hear-on-july-20-cbi-plea-in-vyapam-case\/supreme_court_2426338f\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/SUPREME_COURT_2426338f.jpg?fit=636%2C477&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"636,477\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SUPREME_COURT_2426338f\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/SUPREME_COURT_2426338f.jpg?fit=636%2C477&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-38395 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/SUPREME_COURT_2426338f.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SC agrees to hear plea for electoral reforms\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/SUPREME_COURT_2426338f.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/SUPREME_COURT_2426338f.jpg?w=636&amp;ssl=1 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SC agrees to hear plea for electoral reforms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a plea seeking electoral reforms including framing of rules to de-criminalise and de-communalise the Indian polity and ordered tagging of the petition with a similar one.<\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy said that as similar petition is pending, the PIL be put for hearing along with the earlier petition.<\/p>\n<p>The plea has sought &#8220;lifetime time ban&#8221; against convicted person from contesting elections, forming political party and becoming party office-bearers.<\/p>\n<p>The PIL, filed by lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay, said that reforms in the existing electoral system and polity, which is &#8220;full of corruption, criminalisation, casteism, communalism and nepotism&#8221;, are needed so that citizens&#8217; faith in &#8220;socialism, secularism and democracy&#8221; can be maintained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why only six years&#8217; ban against convicted person, involved in serious crime and corruption? Why not lifetime ban on contesting the election, forming own political party and becoming office-bearers of registered political party against convicted person involved in serious crime and loot?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why not minimum qualification and maximum age limit should be mandatory criteria for contesting Parliament\/ assembly election,&#8221; it asked.<\/p>\n<p>The petition also alleged that the &#8220;political parties and leaders are using the caste and religion for political gain and consequently dividing the society, which is dangerous for fraternity, unity and integrity of the nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Political leaders are misusing the freedom of speech, knowingly and intentionally for political gain, not only during election campaigning but also during interview\/media debates too,&#8221; it alleged, adding that there is no written code of conduct for political parties and leaders.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a plea seeking electoral reforms including framing of rules to de-criminalise and de-communalise the Indian polity and ordered tagging of the petition with a similar one. 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