And I would add that it is not only the biggest election, it is the biggest management event of any kind in the world. [...] We knock on every door and find out if there is any addition to the family, who would like to be added as a voter, whether there has been any change in the sense that somebody has shifted or there has been a death in the family, so they have to be eliminated from the rolls. [...] And I said that low voter turnout is surely a matter of the Election Commission's concern because that raises the question of legitimacy of the representative. [...] Even the poorer people, people who are not so well-off should be able to contest so that it is not a level playing field only among the rich, which is why the concept of a ceiling on expenditure is provided for in the law. [...] But I would say it is better now in the new given circumstances that instead of two and a half months for the election process to be over, let us finish the election in one month in one phase.
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