After G23 Leader Anand Sharma Sunday’s demand CWC meetingAnother dissident Manish Tewari said on Wednesday that it “should be done in the interest”.free and fair elections“, and to help potential candidates who will need the signatures of 10 delegates to file their papers. They got support Shashi Tharoor And Karti ChidambaramSon of veteran P Chidambaram.
AICC Central Election Authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry said the electoral college of PCC representatives can be viewed at the state headquarters while the consolidated list will be provided to the candidates. AICC general secretary organization in-charge KC Venugopal rejected the demand to publish the rolls. “It is an internal process, and it should not be published for all to see. There is no such practice. We will continue to follow the old practice,” he said.
Tiwari tweeted, “How can there be a fair and free election without a publicly available voter list? The essence of a fair and free process is the names and addresses of the voters…” Tiwari tweeted, “Ki ko har PCC office Why should one go to the country to find out who the voters are.”
Tharoor said, “I think it is important… everyone should know who can nominate and who can vote. There is nothing wrong in that.” Tweeting that “reformists are not rebels”, Karti said, “Every election needs a well defined and clear electorate… an ad hoc electorate is no electorate.”
Tiwari also asked why the CWC announced the schedule of the presidential election, but not the 28 PCCs and eight regional Congress committees.