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Church seeks recall right for voters PTI PANJIM, MARCH 10 Ahead of Lok Sabha polls, the Indian church has said that electorate should have right to recall their elected representatives on grounds of non performance, corruption and lack of personal integrity. “The voters should consider those candidates who empower the electorate with the right to recall their elected representatives on grounds of non-performance, corruption and lack of personal integrity,” the resolution adopted by Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) mentions. The conference said that the voters should select and promote candidates without any criminal record or background and having the genuine concerns of youth, women and particularly poor and marginalised at heart. The appeal drafted by CBCI and issued by Reverend Stanislaus Fernandes, said that the candidate should promote communal harmony by scrupulous observance of the constitutional provisions and guarantees as well as State laws. “Be ready to take immediate preventive steps and punitive action against any dissemination of divisive, hate generating literature and campaign, communalisation of politics of defence forces, of police and of bureaucracy,” it reads. The CBCI appeal calls upon citizens who are about to go to the polls, to exercise judiciously their right to elect those representatives who will facilitate the emergence of a nation that we want to be through a responsible and accountable governance. _________________________________________________________________ Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx
