With the July 22 trust vote heralding the election season, every single move in the Election Commission will increasingly come under the scanner. This means the well-known differences between Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami and the two Election Commissioners Navin B Chawla and S Y Quraishi are back to the fore. Chawla and Quraishi, it’s learnt, have arrived at an informal understanding to “keep a watchful eye” on the CEC and have decided not to be out of town at the same time, as this would leave Gopalaswami “a free hand” in administrative matters. Democracy for the Election Commission, it seems, begins at home.
