from my Facebook wall of today:
Greetings from me, self-styled president of self-styled All Earth Congress Committee (and Party).
1. the india chapter of our party today has the opportunity to take our struggle and debate for state funding of elections and electoral reform to the next level via the able leadership of the indian party president. (i think, technically, if donations to nonprofits are invested somewhere and the returns are rolled back into nonprofit activity, then there is no illegality. if there is some sort of policy-aspirational impropriety that is envisaged, that is precisely what we would hope the niti aayog (central govt's economic planning body) looks into, and consults us as we are the prime representatives of civil society, being the principal opposition party.
2. we have been arguing for police and prison reform and there have been many successes...however, the existing very colonial criminal procedure act and related law needs to be overhauled through the prism of the national human rights commission. for example: radical relook at the law that can arbitrarily mark anyone as a suspect...that's what the present law and practice probably amounts to.
3. technology should be used in a transparent, universally accessible, state-owned and controlled way, for legal processes, ranging from broadcasting of court proceedings, to the use of technology to question witnesses etc., rather than the law forcing or compelling so-called accused (and in many other unrelated-to-any-specific example-cases, distant witnesses) to appear in person.
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