The article "Restoring the order at Nirvachan Sadan" was a sensible
and comprehensive piece. However are we omitting something in the
whole process? All these times we have been debating whether the CEC
was empowered enough to recommend the removal of Mr. chawla suo moto.
Has there been even the slightest murmur about the validity/invalidity
of the charges alleged by Mr. Gopalaswamy. He may be wrong in
transgressing the boundaries of his "constitutional powers" but what
about the constraints imposed by his moral authority. Incase there was
some flaw in the conduct of Mr. Chawla had it been okay for him to
keep mum. Suddenly in a day a person who was commended, epitomized for
his conducting of free and fair elections becomes partisan. Suddenly
his integrity is put in doubt and his objections to the conduct of an
EC lack credibility. Mr. Chawla should not be removed from his office,
he should be appointed the new CEC but should the entire issue be left
as just a mistake on the part of the CEC making him the scape goat of
the entire issue. The media has been hounding him incessantly for "How
could he do it" without even thinking ,unbiasedly, "Why he did it". I
think this is another brazen example of the bias of out not so
politically disoriented media.
