Last Thursday, a Supreme Court Bench consisting of Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah delivered a significant judgment. The court considered the plea by the Election Commission that sought to expunge certain oral observations of the Madras High Court against it. The Madras High Court, while considering COVID-19 related case, said that the EC was singularly liable for the second wave of pandemic by failing to regulate the crowds during the election and should probably face murder charges.
The media reported these observations. The EC was aggrieved by these oral strictures and the media reports about them. The Supreme Court rightly rejected the plea by holding that the institutions such as the EC are not immune from criticism. “Our public constitutional institutions must find better responses than to complain,” the court said. It also said that freedom of speech extends to reporting of judicial proceedings. It noted further: “it would be retrograde for this court to promote t
All analysis here has been presented on the weighted data set.
The findings presented here are from post-poll surveys conducted in Tamil Nadu by the Lokniti programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. The survey was conducted April 7 to April 20 in the State among 4354 voters at 160 polling stations in 40 assembly constituencies. The sampling design adopted was multi-stage systematic random sampling. The Assembly Constituencies were randomly selected using the probability proportional to size method. Thereafter, four polling stations within each of the sampled constituencies were selected using the systematic random sampling method. Within each polling station, 40 voters were randomly sampled from the electoral roll using the systematic random sampling method. Of these 40, 25 interviews were targeted. The interviews of electors were conducted face-to-face at their homes after voting had taken place in their area.
Local factors determine electoral outcomes in States
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While national leaders can provide support, the ground work needs to be done by local leaders with a mass base and sustained presence in local politics
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While national leaders can provide support, the ground work needs to be done by local leaders with a mass base and sustained presence in local politics
Even as the nation battles the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Assembly elections have been completed in four States (Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and West Bengal) and one Union Territory (Puducherry). Though citizens and governments came to be exposed to the debilitating impact of COVID-19 in the course of these elections, voter turnout did not see any major decline. The five electoral outcomes mirror the diversity that the country represents.