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Polls will improve only if people are alert: Lyngdoh

New Delhi Oct. 19. The Chief Election Commissioner, J.M. Lyngdoh, has said elections in India will improve only if people are alert and insist on getting ``better people'' and not "criminals."

``Essentially, the polls have to improve. And they will improve only if citizens are alert. Citizens must insist that they get `better people'. Citizens must insist that they do not get `criminals' as they are getting today,'' he told CNN's Talk Asia programme.

— PTI

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