New Delhi, May 5 -- n Amid Western media, intellectual think tanks, academics, human rights organizations, and other components of civil society and Opposition parties here expressing concerns about the state of democracy, the Election Commission has invited 75 international visitors from election management bodies (EMBs) of 23 countries, including Russia, Australia, Maldives, and Seychelles to watch the world's largest elections unfold.
The invited delegates will visit six states in small groups to witness the elections and preparations related to it in various constituencies. The Commission described the visit of the foreign delegates as a first in terms of scale and magnitude of participation. Beginning Saturday, the programme seeks to ...