Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi has said right to recall elected representatives and fixing retirement age for them were not practical solutions to address issues related to performance of politicians. Addressing a function in New Delhi, the CEC spoke in favour of reforms like auditing the accounts of political parties and

ensuring that donations given to them are subject to checks, but claimed there was resistance from political parties on these issues. He said the biggest challenge for the Indian democracy is criminalisation of politics and black money.

Quraishi said criminals in politics and use of black money during elections are an embarrassment. He said due to these two factors India is not able to become the greatest democracy in the world. He said a discussion was needed to arrive at a conclusion on these issues as there was resistance from political parties on them. On right to recall, he said it sounded good, but it was not a practical idea.