T N Seshan's bold initiatives led India's game changing electoral reforms

Seshan took took stern measures to prevent vote buying

Tough, and a stickler to the rule book, T N Seshan fearlessly took on both inert officials and slack political parties to ensure fair and free elections in the country during histrail-blazing six-year stint between 1990 and 1996 as the chief election commissioner.
 

Born Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan on December 15, 1932 in Thirunellai, Palakkad district of Kerala, he ruthlessly enforced the model code of conduct much to the chagrin of political parties.
 

Till he took over, political parties ferrying people to the polling stations were considered quite "normal," and it was during Seshan's stint that it became impossible with