Mr S Narendra, former Information Advisor to Prime Ministers of India has sent the following response to me personally, instead of to the group. I reproduce the message for the information of members.
Srinivasan
moderator
Message of Mr Narendra
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Dear Srinivasan,
The supreme court forced the GOI to change the way the CBI Director was appointed.I donot knwo why our national level political leaders lack political vision and political finesse to protect and presevre our Constitutional institutions, especially when they are in power.
Since power changes hands quickly,all of htem end up at the receiving end.
In the Appointment of Mr Navin chawla as next CEC not only extraordinary haste was shown but alo demonstrates lack of political finesse. It would have been a master stroke if the Congress President and the Prime Minister had decided to issue orders for the appointment of Mr chawla as next CEC but simultaneously asked the present CEC to continue in offcie and supervise the elections and demit office after announcing the results. Besides scoring political point, they would have risen more in people's estimation.The haste on the contrary showed a vindictive streak and did not help to bury the controversy that will dog the next CEC.
S.Narendra
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On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Prime Point Srinivasan <prpoint@gmail.com > wrote:
dear friends
The recent controversy over Mr Navin Chawla, Election Commissioner of India has thrown a new debate as to how to appoint politically neutral persons for top constitutional posts, to retain the high reputation of such bodies.
For this purpose, I took a podcast interview with three eminent persons.
1. Mr Era Chezhian - A Senior Parliamentarian - He was a member of Dinesh Goswami Committee, along with Mr N K P Salve, Mr L K Advani, Mr Somnath Chatterje and others in 1990. The committee recommended procedures for appointing Election Commissioners, in consultation with Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and the Chief Justice of India.
2. Mr N Vittal - Former Central Vigilance Commissioner of India - As per the directions of the Supreme Court, he was the first CVC to be appointed through consensus by the then Prime Minister Mr Vajpayee , Leader of the opposition Mr Sharath Pawar and the Home Minister Mr L K Advani.
3. Mr T S Krishnamoorthy - Former Cheif Election Commissioner of India - He was hailed by all political parties for conducting General Elections in 2004 smoothly and he made lot of recommendations for Electoral reforms. - He is of the view that Election Commissioners are to be appointed through consensus by a panel consistng of Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, Speaker of the Lok Sabh, Chairman of the Rajya Sabha and Chief Justice of India.
Please listen to their views in the podcast in the following link
http://www.poduniversal.com/ 2009/03/mr- navin-chawla- controversy- how-to.html
Srinivasan
Prime Point
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