The Supreme Court has given a big decision in the mayoral election of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation. The country's Supreme Court overturned the election results announced on January 30 and declared the Aam Aadmi Party candidate the winner instead of the Bharatiya Janata Party. This decision of the Supreme Court has confirmed that maintaining the impartiality of elections is the only way to maintain faith in democracy, but maintaining that impartiality is not easy in this country. In the same way in Pakistan, the leaders have pushed the democracy into a coma step by step and the result is now visible to its people. It is not just about Pakistan, many countries of the world have fallen prey to the delusional dreams of elected kings. The Supreme Court has referred to Article 142 of the Constitution to justify its decision. Under this section, the court is empowered to issue orders to ensure complete justice. This shows how seriously the court has taken this matter.

There was talk of holding re-elections after evidence of malpractice by the presiding officer during the counting came to light, but the court took the right decision to reject the argument after examining the ballot papers. The investigation revealed that there was no malpractice in the ballot paper. According to the rules of the Municipal Corporation, none of the criteria is fulfilled for a ballot paper to be considered invalid. That is, due to the mistake made by the presiding officer during the counting of votes, the results of the election were wrong. Who made this mistake can be understood. The Supreme Court not only took action against the presiding officer for trying to manipulate the result, but also initiated criminal proceedings against him for misleading the court.

Aam Aadmi Party candidate Kuldeep Kumar was declared mayor of Chandigarh, but the irony of the ceremony is that after the failure of the municipal election process, the intervention of the Supreme Court got him justice and he was able to occupy the post of mayor. The life prestige of this democracy is as important as the life prestige of Ramlalla in Ayodhya. Chandigarh's mayoral election is a minor electoral event in the all-India context, but the modus operandi adopted is fatal to the country and that is why the Supreme Court has stunned the central authorities by giving immediate special attention to the case.

This is a strong message that tampering with election results will have serious consequences. Such measures are needed to prevent people from indulging in such activities. The dismay shown by the court towards the officials responsible for the election process in this case was, comparatively speaking, nowhere more than the anger directed against the accused in the murder case. There is no shortage of officers in India making such deliberate mistakes. Presiding officers are expected to be found at every booth who offend their souls. A significant aspect of the Supreme Court's decision is that it did not delay its decision. This is particularly important given that it took almost a year for the court's verdict to bring down Uddhav Thackeray's government in Maharashtra.

The Supreme Court's finding that the Governor of Maharashtra was wrong in bringing the no-confidence motion may have been legally correct, but its practical impact was limited. Delay in getting justice in cases of electoral malpractice amounts to injustice. India has a glorious history of ensuring electoral fairness, largely due to the Election Commission. Despite the challenging circumstances, the Election Commission ensured that a situation like the chaos that occurred during the 2020 US presidential election never arose in India. Since the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation election was outside the purview of the Election Commission, it was natural for the Supreme Court to dispose of the matter expeditiously.

This decision draws a clear line to all the police or administration officials who are going to contest the next general elections that there will be no compromise on fairness. The Supreme Court has indirectly placed a shadow on all the upcoming elections that willful mistakes will be severely punished.