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Description
This book contains all salient provisions of the Constitution, electoral laws and a plethora of directions and instructions of the Election commission of India on various aspects of electoral exercise. The present book is and abridged version of ‘How India Votes: Election Laws, Practice and Procedure’, however, it has been updated with the amendments made to election law, judicial pronouncements of the Supreme Court and High Courts as well as the Election Commission's directions and instructions which have come into effect subsequent to the publication of the second edition of the above book in 2007. It is hoped that the present book will also be found equally useful by all interested in the ensuing electoral exercise, legal practitioners in election laws, students of electoral law, psephologists and the media personnel covering electoral activities.
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Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The President and Vice-President of India
Chapter 3. Parliament of India
Chapter 4. State Legislatures
Chapter 5. Management of Elections
Chapter 6. Constituencies and Delimitation
Chapter 7. Electors and Electoral Rolls
Chapter 8. Candidates and their Eligibility to Contest
Chapter 9. Election Time-table
Chapter 10. Nominations, Scrutiny and Withdrawal of Candidatures
Chapter 11. Political Parties and Election Symbols
Chapter 12. Campaign Period
Chapter 13. Poll
Chapter 14. Counting of Votes
Chapter 15. Declaration of Results, Constitution of House and Multiple Elctions
Chapter 16. Malpractices of Elections
Chapter 17. Election Petitions
Appendices
1. Councils of State (Rajya Sabha)
2. House of the People (Lok Sabha)
3. State Legislative Assemblies
4. Allocation of Seats in the Legislative Councils
5. Local Authorities for Purpose of Elections to Legislative councils
6. Election Commission of India Model code of Conduct for the Guidance of
Political Parties and Candidates
7. Maxim Limits of election Expenses
Index
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Author Details
SK Mendiratta is the Legal Advisor to the Election Commission of India, He has served the Election Commission of India for more than 44 years in various capacities as Director (Law), Principal Secretary, etc. He was appointed by the Government as the Secretary to the Committee on State Funding of Elections (known as Indrajit Gupta Committee) in 1998. The Committee comprised, among others, the present Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, and the present Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Shri Somnath Chatterjee, In 2004, he functioned as the UN appointed International Member (Election Commissioner) of Afghanistan Joint Electoral Management Body, which conducted the first-ever Presidential election in Afghanistan, under the aegis of the United Nations. Earlier, he also worked as a technical resource person in electoral laws and procedures in South Africa, Nigeria, Malawi, Sweden and South Korea under the Commonwealth Secretariat, IFES, IDEA, NDI and UNDP. He also assisted the Royal Government of Bhutan in 2005-06 in the drafting of their Election Act, which later became the basis for conducting the first-ever direct elections in that country in 2008. He was engaged as an Advisor to the Delimitation Commission of India, headed by Mr Justice Kuldip Singh, former Judge of the Supreme Court, during the functioning of that Commission from July 2002 to May 2008.
He has co-authored the first edition of the book 'How India Votes: Election Laws, Practice and Procedure', and has also revised the 2nd edition of that book brought out in January, 2007. He has contributed to volume 16 of the Halsbury's Law of India, dealing with election laws and revised the 2nd edition.
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