Fix criteria for candidates: UHRO

The eligibility criteria should be fixed for the candidates who want to contest elections.

The eligibility criteria should be fixed for the candidates who want to contest elections. This was said by Satnam Singh Dhaliwal,president of Universal Human Rights Organisation (UHRO),while addressing a press conference here today.

Dhaliwal said,There is an eligibility criteria for the appointment of a class IV employee. His education,age and capabilities are fixed and the time of retirement is also fixed. Even the criminal verification is also done. On the similar lines,there shall be some eligibility criteria for the candidates contesting elections. It is a matter of grave concern that leaders who are elected in the Lok Sabha do not have to fulfill such conditions. Even an old and uneducated person becomes the leader and then formulates rules and regulations for overall development of the country.

While Soorat Singh Khalsa,general secretary of the UHRO,said,In the first phase of Lok Sabha elections,many candidates with criminal background contested elections from different political parties. Such candidates should not be allowed to contest the elections.

Dhaliwal said that UHRO will file a Public Interest Litigation in Supreme Court to fix the eligibility criteria of candidates.

He further said that there shall be separate button in Electronic Voting Machine through which a voter not interested in casting his/her vote should be able to give his/her suggestion and such suggestion should be handed over to the government.

Dhaliwal said that there should be some fixed time for fulfilling the promises made in the election manifesto of each party,failing which the registration of party should be cancelled.

When asked why they were saying all this late in the day because the 15th Lok Sabha elections had already begun,Soorat Singh Khalsa said,We are late this time. But it would be an eye opener for the future elections.

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