ECI’s reforms cannot erase past failures
Imagine you're a patient in a hospital and the hospital tells you:“From tomorrow, we’ll maintain proper records of every important decision about your treatment. We’ll make sure doctors can make the decisions without being overridden by a computer system. And if something goes wrong, we’ll investigate what happened.”You are not going to say, “Waah - Great reforms.”You would ask:“Hello, Wait. What was happening till yesterday?”That is exactly where we need to begin with the Election Commission of India.After months of questions over its functioning, the ECI has suddenly announced a series of…
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