NOTA be converted in Right-To-Reject and Chief Ministers be elected in state-assemblies through secret and compulsory vote of all MLAs
Winning of many party-rebels in recently held elections to five state-assemblies, ever-increasing vote-share of NOTA, strong factionalism in winning party in Hindi-heartland and necessity of costly by-elections because of candidates winning from dual constituencies call for urgent poll-reforms to be implemented before 2019-elections to Lok Sabha.
A candidate must not be allowed to contest for more than one seat. Rather a sitting MP or MLA must first resign from earlier seat before filing nomination for the other. NOTA should be converted into Right-To-Reject where all candidates getting votes less than NOTA may be barred for life-time from contesting any election. In case of NOTA winning elections, re-election may be held but with a rider to disable NOTA-button to avoid chain of by-elections caused due to NOTA winning every time.
To tackle factionalism in winning parties, Chief Ministers should be elected by secret and compulsory votes of all MLAs through EVMs on nominations filed by at least 34-percent MLAs. Any such elected Chief Minister may only be removed by same process but with compulsion of naming alternate leader in the same motion. Such an elected Chief Minister will be able to have cordial relations with opposition in running the House-proceedings.
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL