The TMC has written a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora saying that the postal ballot voting as decided for the voters beyond 65-year-age was a violation of the right to secrecy to vote and right to free and fair elections.
In an apparent reference to the recent amendment allowing people above 65 years of age and the corona patients to vote from home TMC general secretary Subrata Bakshi wrote “We consider this move of wanting those above 65 years of age to vote through postal ballots as arbitrary, unconstitutional, and ex-facie a violation of the right to secrecy of the vote, right to free and fair elections, and right to health of the citizens of India.”
Calling the decision arbitrary as no party was consulted regarding the decision Bakshi said that the amendment would in effect disenfranchise senior citizens above the age of 65 by denying them a “fair, equal, and reasonable chance to participate in elections.”