Guwahati, July 4 -- As our immediate neighbour Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) plans for a nationwide election in the next few months, the anti-junta and pro-democracy groups have come out with strong voices that the 'military junta has no legal or political legitimacy to hold an election' and itdoes not have the effective territorial or administrative control over southeast Asian Buddhist majority nation to conduct an inclusive poll.

Progressive Voice, a participatory, rights-based policy research and advocacy organization, asserted that 'with relentless junta attacks causing widespread instability and mass displacement, its planned election would be neither free & fair nor credible.'

Reacting to the proposed election by M...