New Delhi, Feb 11 || Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha has strongly advocated for the introduction of a "Right to Recall" mechanism in India, allowing voters to remove non-performing elected representatives such as MPs and MLAs before the end of their term.
Speaking in the Rajya Sabha during Zero Hour, Chadha spoke on the issue, emphasising that the current system lacks accountability and performance evaluation for elected leaders.
Chadha highlighted a key flaw in India's electoral democracy: "Before the election, the leader is after the public, and after the election, the public is after the leader."
He argued that a five-year term is too long in today's fast-paced world, and electing the wrong leader can plunge lakhs of people and entire regions into darkness and backwardness.
The AAP leader stressed that voters deserve the power to correct their mistakes, describing the Right to Recall not as a weapon against politicians, but as an "insurance for democracy".