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vijay vaswan
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4:44 PM on April 02, 2009
khankar k's Answer
1- Age limit (maximum)
2- If you contest from a particular party, later you cannot switch your loyalty to any other party (because the people have voted you in favour of that particular party)
3- Minimum education criterion (if the sitting MP is a graduate, only graduates can contest from that particular constituency and so on)
4- If you loose in a general election, you cannot be taken in for Rajya Sabha either in that particular term (because most loosers become MP through this back door, if people have rejected means rejected, period)
5- The current rule is - If you have been convicted for a 2 year term, you (new candidate) cannot contest, but if you are a sitting MP and gets conviction for any number of terms you can still contest. Why? SO the bench mark should be if you are convicted for one year (new or sitting MP you cannot contest till you are cleared by Supreme Court).
6 – You cannot contest from 2 seats simultaneously. (Because later on you resign from one and again election is held for that particular seat, and again tax payers money go down the drains)
7 – Health reason. If you already had two heart attacks, you cannot walk, are too weak etc how can you work for the people, so one cannot contest.
8 – You cannot contest directly for a general election; just because it was your mothers, fathers or husbands constituency, you contest and become an MP with no work experience. There should be steps, SO, first you contest for a corporator, then for MLA and then only you can go for an MP. (Don’t we think one should be experienced enough for such an important work?)
9 – If a person looses for three consecutive terms in a general election he should not be aloud to contest, he / she should be sent back for MLA elections. (It’s like demotion)
10 – Election Commission is a watch dog but with no teeth to punish, there should be a separate entity which takes action on the recommendations on the EC before the election date itself.
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1:14 PM on April 03, 2009
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