The time has come for the country to look at an alternative electoral process and move away from the ‘first-past-the-post’ (FPTP) system to ‘proportional representation’ (PR), according to a member of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly and founder-president of Lok Satta party, Jayaprakash Narayan.
The FPTP electoral process currently in the country had become vitiated to a stage where the “best and brightest” were literally unelectable because of the election expenses in fashion. “In major States, it costs between Rs. 2 crore and Rs. 6 crore to compete as an MLA and up to Rs. 10 crore to compete as an MP,” he said on Saturday, delivering a lecture-discussion on ‘Towards electoral reform: money power in electoral politics and campaign spending’ organised by The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy at the newspaper office here.
Source : The Hindu, CHENNAI, August 25, 2013
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