Unique case in Indian parliamentary history
The rigging in chandigarh Mayor elections is a unique case in indian parliamentary history. Allegations of election irregularities are nothing new in the indian democratic system. In the past too, many incidents of irregularities have come to light in many elections. In the past, many of these cases even reached the high court and the supreme Court.
Many methods have been tried to rig elections. Earlier, mistakes were made secretly behind the scenes. The case of chandigarh is such that the irregularities were committed in the presence of cameras. The person who is responsible for conducting elections fairly has crossed all limits of audacity in committing this despicable act. It is the responsibility of the Presiding Officer or Returning Officer to conduct elections in a free and fair manner.
Unique case of rigging in front of camera
chandigarh mayor election was held on 30 January. To ensure fairness in the elections, Anil Masih was made the presiding officer. Anil Masih is a nominated councilor of chandigarh Municipality, who belongs to BJP. Anil Masih knew very well that the entire election proceedings were being recorded on CCTV. Despite this, he deliberately tried to dedata-face eight ballot papers, so that these ballot papers could be declared invalid. All the ballot papers belonged to councilors of aam aadmi party and Congress.