Chennai:
Election commission has failed to ensure that elections are disabled friendly by making special facilities for the physically disabled at all polling stations including laying of ramps, separate queues and special arrangements, a petition alleged.
Urging Madras High Court to direct Election Commission to make 2014 Lok Sabha polls disabled friendly, the petitioner submitted before the bench comprising of Justice Paul Vasantha Kumar and Justice Sathyanarayan that despite Supreme Court direction on October 5, 2007 to EC to provide ramps and separate queues for physically handicapped nothing much has been done. “The Election Commission is just passing the instructions without any follow-up action to ensure the compliance of instructions,” the judges stated.
“It has become the habit of EC to issue such instructions to show as if it is complying with Supreme Court without ensuring that the same is implemented in reality,” the petitioner said.
The petitioner also stated that the act of chief election commissioner, state election commission, state chief secretary and district collector in not providing suitable arrangements for disabled persons in polling station violative of right guaranteed under Article (14), 9 (1) (a) and 21.
The judges adjourned the hearing to Wednesday after issuing a notice to the Election Commission.
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