1) Comments from Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), New Delhi to the High Level Committee – One Nation, One Election 

Letter

Date

Copy of Letter

15th January 2024

2)  Request for an immediate action against political parties and their office bearers for willful disobedience and blatant disregard of the lawful directions of the Election Commission of India issued in pursuance to the Supreme Court judgments in (2019) 3 SCC 224 and 2014 (3) SCALE 563 in the light of discrepancies found in Forms C7 and C8 during Gujarat State Assembly Elections 2022

Letter

Date

Copy of Letter

08th January 2024

3) ADR's Letter to ECI: Reminder letter requesting immediate action against political parties and their officebearers for wilful disobedience and blatant disregard of the lawful directions of the Election Commission of India issued in pursuance to the Supreme Court judgments in (2019) 3 SCC 224 and 2014 (3) SCALE 563 during the Assembly Elections held in the years 2023, 2022 and 2021.

Letter

Date

Copy of Letter

28th November 2023

4) ADR's Letter to ECI: Request for an immediate action against political parties and their office bearers for wilful disobedience and blatant disregard of the lawful directions of the Election Commission of India issued in pursuance to the Supreme Court judgments in (2019) 3 SCC 224 and 2014 (3) SCALE 563.

Letter

Date

Copy of Letter

19th June 2023

5) ADR's Letter to ECI: Request to improve and take appropriate action in affidavits (Form 26) dealing with declaration of criminal case against candidates contesting elections.

Letter

Date

Copy of Letter

11th April 2023

6) ADR's Letter to ECI: Non-availability of the Election Expenditure Reports of JDU and JDS for the Karnataka Assembly Elections, 2018.

Letter

Date

Copy of Letter

20th January 2023

7) ADR's Letter to ECI: Request for an immediate intervention and appropriate action by the Commission against the amendment brought by the government to the Electoral Bonds Scheme, 2018 during the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) period.

Letter

Date

Copy of Letter

21st November 2022

8) ADR's Letter to ECI: Appeal for immediate and full implementation of the Standard Operating Procedure issued vide letter no. 76/instructions/EEPS/2015/VolII on seizure and release of cash/other items dated 29.05.2015 by the Election Commission of India.

Letter

Date

Copy of Letter

20th January 2022

9) ADR's Letter to ECI: Request for immediate action for implementation of Voting Facilities for the Migrant Workers to enable them to vote from anywhere, during the upcoming State Assembly and Parliamentary elections

Letter

Date

Copy of Letter

5th May 2021

10) ADR suggestions to address the issue of booth capturing/bogus voting using biometric unique identification process

Letter

Date

Copy of Letter

1st April 2021

11) ADR's Letter to ECI: Issues regarding the candidate affidavits uploaded by ECI and the suggestions for the same

Letter

Date

Copy of Letter

11th November 2020

12) ADR Comments/Suggestions on Main Recommendations of Working Groups of Various Aspects of Electoral Management

Letter

Date

Copy of Letter

23rd March 2020

13) Recommendations on Electoral and Political Reforms to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel Public Grievances, Law and Justice.

White Paper

Date

Copy of Paper

26th May 2017

14) Impact of Black Money in Elections and Political Activities

This paper analyses the influence of black money in elections and politics and vice versa in the context of several recent far reaching judgments of the Supreme Court and the Central Information Commission (CIC).

White Paper

Date

Copy of Paper

June 2015

15) Indian Politics and the issue of Conflict of Interest 

This paper analyses the lacunae in law regarding conflict of interest for MPs in India. It also draws comparisons with laws in countries like the UK, USA, Canada and Australia on conflict of interest. It is hoped that the laws regarding conflict of interest are strengthened for greater disclosure and stricter penalty in case of the abuse of office.

A Case Study

Date

Copy of Study

June 2015

16) Additional views of ADR/NEW on Political Finance and the 255th Report of the Law Commission of India 

On 22nd April 2015, ADR/NEW made a submission “Additional views of ADR/NEW on Political Finance and the 255th Report of the Law Commission of India” to the Election Commission of India.

Recommendation

Date

Copy of Recommendation

22nd April 2015

17) ADR Submits Recommendations to SIT on Black Money. 

Circulation of Unaccounted Money in Activities Related to Electoral Process

Recommendation

Date

Copy of Memorandum

12th December 2014

18) ADR and NEW's Recommendations for Electoral and Political Reforms. 

Recommendation

Date

Summary

April 2011

Entire Document

April 2011

19) Political Parties Draft Bill 2011. 

The enclosed bill was drafted by a committee Chaired by Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah, former Chief Justice of India. The other members of the committee included Mr. Sudhish Pai, Advocate, Sri Kuriya Chamayya, former Law Secretary, Karnataka, Mr. Arakere Jayaram, Journalist, Sri B. Somashekara, former Minister, and Prof Trilochan Sastry, founder ADR.

Recommendation

Date

English Version

2011

Hindi Version

2011

Gujarati Version

2011


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