India's electoral process among most transparent in world: CEC

The Election Commission of India (ECI) organised its fifth regional conference on "Electoral Literacy Clubs and ECINET" in Ahmedabad on Friday, focusing on strengthening electoral literacy and democratic awareness among young citizens. Addressing the gathering, CEC Gyanesh Kumar said that the students of today are the torchbearers of tomorrow's democracy. He added that Electoral Literacy Clubs across India will help strengthen the backbone of the world's oldest and largest democracy. He said India's electoral process is among the most transparent in the world as verification is carried out at every stage, from electoral rolls to counting of votes. "At every stage of India's electoral process, political parties, candidates or their agents continuously carry out verification. Therefore, India's electoral process is among the most transparent electoral processes in the world," he said.
Explaining the transparency of the polling process, he said that before polling begins, EVMs and VVPATs are checked during the mock poll in the presence of polling agents of candidates. After polling concludes, the procedures related to the EVM results are completed in the presence of candidates' agents and the necessary documents are signed, Kumar said.

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India currently holds the chairmanship of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), an organisation comprising 35 major democracies of the world, which reflects global recognition of India's free and fair electoral system, the ECI release quoted Kumar as saying.

(State Correspondent)