Bye-Elections – is it necessary?
3 constituencies of Kerala goes for bye-elections on 7th November along with 11 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in West Bengal and two each in Rajasthan, Assam, and Himachal Pradesh and one seat in Chhattisgarh. 1 parliamentary constituency from Utter Pradesh also go for bye-election.
In Kerala, it happened as 3 sitting MLAs won the recently concluded Lok Sabha election.
The other states also go for bye-election due to various reasons.
There are lots of bye-elections conducted in India since 1952, the details can be found in Election Commission’s website. In some cases the reason for bye-election was resignation and if you go through the details provided in the site in most of the cases reason for vacancy is empty.
If you take this bye-election in Kerala, I do not think it was required. The party may be having its own justifications but the money goes from common mans’ pocket.
There is no exact record of expenditure of each election. The Election commission website is updated up to 2004 elections; the approximate expenditure was 1300 Crores for the parliament election. (http://eci.nic.in/miscellaneous_statistics/expenditurel_loksabha.asp)
Some surveys suggested that a whopping 10,000 crore were spent, where does the money come from, it’s from our pocket.
The election commission or the people of this country should come with a law for banning such bye-elections. A sitting MP or MLA/MLC cannot contest any other elections till the end his/her term. Thus the bye-election only be necessitated once a sitting MP or MLA/MLC dies or resign on personal reasons.
Why create unnecessary expense, this money can be utilized for development. Don’t you think so?
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