New Delhi, December 21: Chief Election Commissioner Navin B Chawla today suggested that making voting compulsory across the country is not easy.
“If you were in my place, how would you enforce it (compulsory voting) if in 2009 general elections, 250 million or 300 million people could not come out to vote? Now, you answer me,” Chawla shot back at a programme here when a person during the question-answer hour insisted him to comment on the Gujarat government making voting compulsory in local body elections in state.
“Even I will take your feeling to the full commission,” Chawla told the inquirer in a lighter vein.
Speaking at a question-answer session after delivering the Mother Teresa Memorial Lecture here, Chawla said there were 750 million voters in the country and another 30 million would be added in January 2010.
–Agencies