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EC vs. Government

The Madras High Court's remark that the Election Commission should not act like a `big brother' and issue diktats transferring key government officials, while ruling that the Commission's order requesting the transfer of Chennai Commissioner of Police R. Nataraj was not binding on the Tamil Nadu Government, is a setback for the E.C. The Commission will do well to remember that while it is not an elected body, the Government, whose functioning it is interfering with, is.

N. Nagesh,
Chennai

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How is it possible for an independent body to conduct free and fair elections with the help of officials appointed by the ruling party? The elections might as well be conducted by the States themselves. There is no alternative except accepting that the Commission is a `big brother' till the elections are completed and the results declared.

S. Prakash,
Mutharasanallur, T.N.

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