<b>Letters</b>:Undue advantage

Law should be amended to bar candidates from contesting elections from multiple seats

The law permitting a candidate to contest polls from multiple seats, or a sitting MP to be in the fray for a state assembly seat and vice versa, is unfair and heavily lopsided in favour of such public representatives. If the candidate wins from both seats, he/she has to resign from one leading to a bypoll. Similar is the case when an MP contesting a state assembly seat or vice versa wins.
 
As a result, merely to benefit an individual, a huge burden of the bypoll is thrust upon the public and the exchequer. Besides, bypolls lead to wastage