Your leader rightfully has spotted the casual approach displayed by the political parties, in naming the candidates for individual constituency. While this can be partly explained as highlighted in your leader to the networking and highly interconnected communications blaze which can be launched by the parties, it does not take way the essential need of the voter to know adequately before the election date, the options before him.
One of the ways to ensure this is to have the filing of the nominations deadline almost 40 days ahead of the election date. Such an approach would make the candidates visible.
It is a fact that in a democratic environment and a free press, it is in this intervening period - between the nomination date and the date on which we cast the vote, the candidates are near “Naked” in the public eye. After that they are shrouded in secrecy and the law builds around them a fortress, which ordinary citizen cannot penetrate.
It is in the interest of our nation that these candidates are subject to close scrutiny for a given period of time before each one of us exercise our franchise.
With regards,
V.BALAKRISHNAN
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