Telangana - Election Commission prepares action plan for LS polls
About the impending 2024 lok sabha elections, the telangana State election Officer, C Partha Sarthi, held a second meeting here on Friday. The senior election officer requested that the enforcement agencies create an action plan to address cash flow, narcotics, alcohol, gold, diamond, and silver decorations both inside and beyond the state. district authorities will participate in training sessions to get them ready for the general elections.
The meeting was attended by several enforcement agency nodal officers, including representatives from the state-level banking committee, the telangana state police, the enforcement directorate, the postal service, the Reserve bank of India, the airport authority of India, the state aviation department, the department of revenue intelligence, the narcotics control bureau, the departments of commercial taxes, transportation, and both central and state excise.
The election commission (EC) has expressed concerns to the supreme court in 2019 over the modifications made to a number of laws pertaining to political fundraising in order to support the electoral bonds scheme, claiming that these changes would have "serious repercussions" on transparency. In a historic decision rendered just days before the lok sabha elections, the supreme court on thursday struck down the electoral bonds programme. The arrangement was declared "unconstitutional" by the court, which also mandated that the identities of the purchasers, the bond's value, and the beneficiaries' data be made public.