Electoral Reforms

ELECTORAL REFORMS.

1. Formation of coalitions between parties should be done away with. It only helps the Major parties to get more seats than what they would get but for the coalition.
These small parties who at the maximum will be able to get not more than five percent Seats if they contested alone only help to tilt the balance. In T amilnadu in the last 35 years it is amply proved that either the D.M.K. or the AD.M.K. capture power with their coalition with the Congress then and now the T,:M.C. If and when a coalition is formed then such parties should also form part of the government and not be simple outside supporters.
2. Parties which stand alone should contest for atleast 30 percent of the seats and win atleast 10 percent of the seats of the Assembly or the states quota of parliament seats. If the party is not able to win 10 percent of the seats the members of that party will not have any voting powers, but can participate in the proceedings. This will ensure that these small ( 1 ) member parties will not be able to disturb the balance in the house leading to resignation of a government.
3. No person shall be permitted to contest in more than one seat. If permitted (and that too in not more than two seats) then such person or the party to which he belongs should give an undertaking to bear the cost of a bye-election that will be necessary in case that person wins in both seats and subsequently resigns from one seat. This principle should also apply when a person who is already an _M..L. A or M .P. stands for election as an M.P. or _M.L.A and has necessarily to resign one post there by causing a bye-election.
4. No M.L.A or M.P. will switchover loyalties to a party during the tenure of a term either singly or in groups, even if that group is one third of the strength of the party in the house. Such defection will be treated as automatic resignation and such person or persons will face a re-election :from the same constituency but on the ticket of the party to which he/she or they wish to defect/s and the cost of such bye-election will have to be met by him/her or them or by the party on whose ticket he/she or they contest the re-elr\ection
5.The strength of any ministry shall not exceed ten percent of the strength of the house, and in states which are bicameral the strength of both houses shall be taken together. The ministry can be a single tier or a two tier one but not a three tiered one
6.Members elected to the Rajyasabha or upper house should be non political persons of standing and experts in their fields. The function of the upper house or Rajyasabha should by only recommendatorv and not mandatory. The functioning should be on the lines of the House of Lords of England. The position now is not what was envisioned by the framers of the Constitution – to be disruptive or dissipatory as is now..
7. No person shall be elected to the Rajyasabha for more than two terms either one
following the other or with a gap between one term and the next

K.S.Narayanaswamy.
Letter.No.2
ELECTORAL ROLLS AND ELECTIONS