Re: Long March Declaration — A post-mortem
According to constitution, government should appoint capable and neutral persons in election commission … but they don’t. TUQ agreement is that, all people presently working in EC should go (except Election commissioner) and new EC with capable and neutral (non-party affiliated) person get appointed in EC throughout country.
Constitution says that no one can contest election if they do not qualify Article 62, 63 and 218 … but implementation is left on EC who consist of mostly politically affiliated people plus they also do not have power or requirement to see if candidates comply the Articles. Actually, present situation is that EC rely on candidates own declaration in nomination papers, and if there is objection from some other person contesting election in same constituency then EC ask complainant to give proves.
New agreement is that EC would have to do investigation on all candidates intending to contest election before allowing them to contest. EC has 30 days to do their investigation and care-taker government along with all government institutions would help EC.