Sixth National Conference on Electoral and Political Reforms April 10 & April 11, 2010 Samanvay Bhavan, Bhopal. The campaign for electoral and political reforms has over 1200 organizations working with it, in addition to support from eminent citizens, media, senior retired judges, bureaucrats and Police officers.These campaigns came out of the landmark Supreme Court Judgments of May 2, 2002 and March 13, 2003 mandating disclosure of candidates’ financial, educational and criminal background. Previous Conferences were held in Ahmedabad (2003), Bangalore (2004), Patna (2006), Lucknow (2007) and Mumbai (2008). The Sixth National Conference on electoral and political reforms, organized by ADR and NEW was held on April 10 & 11 2010 at Samanvay Bhavan, Bhopal.Since 2002, the major impacts of these campaigns have been on criminalization of politics, and transparency in candidate and political party assets. Leaders of both the BJP and the Indian National Congress have made public statements that they would not field candidates. As a result of these campaigns, the percentage of candidates with criminal records has come down from over 20% to about 12% recently. However, a lot still remains to be done. In particular, the exponential growth in the use of money power is a major area of concern since it vitiates democracy. The delegates to this conference will include organizations from all States participating in the National Election Watch (NEW) campaign, eminent citizens, media, senior bureaucrats and Police officials, leaders from the corporate sector and the political parties. At the same time, anyone interested is welcome to participate. Though electoral and political reforms require a lot of debate and work, in this Conference the focus will be on specific action items: sharing the Lok Sabha 2009 Election Watch experience special sessions on “Political party reforms”, “The media and the paid news in elections” and “Election watch in the local elections”. The delegates to the conference comprised of civil society organizations, eminent citizens, media, senior bureaucrats and Police officials, leaders from the corporate sector and the political parties. The National Election Watch groups from each state were present and shared their experience. Based on year long consultations in their respective states by the election watch groups the following resolutions were unanimously passed at the conference.

City: 
Bhopal
State : 
Madhya Pradesh
Date: 
10.04.2010
Time: 
10:00 AM
Venue : 
Samanvay Bhavan, Bhopal
Topic: 
Sixth National Conference on Electoral and Political Reforms
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