Nishikant Dubey said in Lok Sabha during the debate on Electoral reforms:
1. "If any party has been consistent about the need for electoral reforms in this country .. it has been BJP".
2. Only three Private member's Resolution has been passed in Parliament -- one, by L K Advani on Electoral Reforms
and it was because of that the facets like CCTV, VPPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) were introduced.
3. Two other resolutions were passed at my initiatives on Art 370 and Art 35 (A).
5. In 1972 - as part of electoral reforms, a law was passed related to internal election in political parties.
It had said there should be transparency in election of presidents and state unit chiefs of political parties.
"In our party (BJP), presidents get two terms and each term is for three years. J P Nadda became president in 2020 and so his term factually ends only in 2026.
"But look in your own house... ever since Mamata Banerjee became the chief of Trinamool, she is continuing in the post. In DMK, after Karunanidhi it came down to M K Stalin .... Look at Congress, other than Gandhi family; no one else can become party president. And those who become presidents as exception; their fate ends like that of Sitaram Kesri ... who was even disrobed".
Sonia Gandhi and Sitaram Kesri
"This country starting from the days of Mohammed Ali Jinnah to Salman Rushdie is locked up in its own game of vote-bank appeasement".
Nishikant Dubey said -- "In Bihar even my father's name was deleted from the voters' list because these days he stays with me in Delhi".
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"Constitution of India is not like a hunter's net ....".
"President's reference appears for 121 times in the Constitution; but Congress did one amendment in 1970s; and the President had become a rubber stamp".
"Indira Gandhi had indulged in Vote Chori and won Rae Bareli election and when the court ruling came ... they created a situation that three judges were bypassed and one chief justice of their choice was made. He continued as CJI for 8 and half years".
"Even for UPSC which selects IAS and IPS officers was once headed by one Congress worker Batuk Singh for as many as 10 years".
"They talk about Election Commission; the country's first chief election commissioner, Sukumar Sen, was appointed as envoy to Sudan. CEC V S Ramadevi was later appointed as Himachal Pradesh Governor.
"T N Seshan was made a poll candidate against the BJP from Ahmedabad, M S Gill after retirement remained a cabinet minister for 10 years.
"And the Congress still talks of honesty and transparency" - he said.
"About CBI - one officer Ashwini Kumar, who was security officer for Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi was made CBI chief,
Ranjit Sinha, who was close to Congress leader Ahmed Patel, was also made CBI director."
M K Narayan was made Governor ...and sometimes made National Security Advisor".
"Yes, I am with the RSS... we are proud that we come with the RSS background".
Earlier poll violence was an usual thing.
In 1980 in reply to a question from Indrajit Gupta (CPI); the then Minister P Shinshankar had said that out of 324 assembly constituencies in the then Bihar; there had to be repoll in 81 assembly segments.
In some places - ballot boxes were 'taken away' by wrong doers in more than 50 points.
"Do you want to get back to that situation again".
Who brought EVM ?
It was first introduced by Congress in 1987 as a pilot project.
In 1991 - the Narasimha Rao government decided to implement a policy of using EVMs in elections.
There were earlier reports about EVMs in 1961 Parliamentary Select Committee and also in 1971 Select Committee. "The chairman for both the panels was Jagannath Rao, a Congressman".
Both the reports also stressed that there is need for Special Intensive Review (SIR).
Dubey alleged that Naveen Chawla was made election commissioner and later CEC due to his "deep connections with the Gandhi family's ecosystem".
He was 'directly' elevated to poll panel in a controversial decision perhaps also because he wrote a book on Mother Teresa and tried to promote Christianity.
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