He says he doesn’t want to reply to comments made by politicians but he has done so by attempting to justify his remarks. We do not condone criticism of the independent election commission buy politicians but there are exceptions. For example a member of elections commission went to supreme court against a decision of the commission. Our politicians always try to promote their interests by any means available to them. Such acts are deplorable. As the elections are indefinitely postponed the election commission has no authority to stop such acts. Therefore the commissioner should have clearly stated that his was a personal opinion not related to his officil status. Then he could have requested the politiciana(s) to publicly announce that distribution of aid is not done to promote his/their political aspirations and also done irrespective of party affiliation of benefificieries, .