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worldwide also caught this country's fancy and it invited then Chief Election
Politics": Court
Dismisses Arvind Commissioner Sukumar Sen to conduct its first parliamentary elections in 1953.
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According to the Election Commission archival records, Sen spent 14 months

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organising the polls in Sudan, drawing heavily from Indian election literature and
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The success of the first general elections (1951-52) put India on the "terra firma"
(solid ground) of democracy, according to the ECI's archival literature.

"Numerous enquiries were received from countries in the Middle East, Africa, and
South America for detailed information on the elections. Sukumar Sen, the Chief
Election Commissioner, was nominated to chair an International Commission to
hold elections in Sudan, a former British colony," the records said.

"He spent 14 months organising the elections, modifying partially the Indian laws
and procedures on the subject, to suit the need of that Afro-Arabic nation. The
elections in Sudan based on universal adult suffrage were a success not
withstanding its literacy rate of mere two per cent," it added.

In 1954, when the Indian government instituted civilian awards, Sen was
bestowed upon the Padma Bhushan for his contribution.

Sen, an officer of the Indian Civil Service, was the chief secretary of West Bengal
when he was called to be the first Chief Election Commissioner of India.

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"India's reputation as a democratic nation received further international

endorsement when Lok Sabha Speaker GV Mavalankar was elected as the
Chairman of the General Council of the Commonwealth Parliamentary
Association in 1956 in Jamaica It was the first time that an Asian member had
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been elected to the Chair," the records said.

Sukumar Sen's role in setting off the tone for the democratic exercise has also
been acknowledged by 17th Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi in his book
"An Undocumented Wonder: The Great Indian Election".

"The first elections of 1952 under Sen were pivotal, because they set the standard
for all subsequent elections. Sen started from scratch. There was no staff,
permanent or temporary, no infrastructure, no training facilities, no institutional
memory, as a large number of the staff who had conducted the 1944 assembly
elections had either migrated or were killed in the riots. Sen started with a clean
slate," he said.

"Today, after over seven decades, the great Indian election has become a global
benchmark for free, fair, and credible elections. Although there have been several
electoral reforms during this period, the most prominent of which is switching
over from the individual coloured ballot boxes, to ballot papers and eventually the
electronic voting machines, perhaps 80 percent of the system remains what its
founder, Sen, had created," Mr Quraishi has written in his book.

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schedule for which is likely to be announced next month. Last General Elections
in the country were held in 2019.

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