Why dont you let the voter register a against vote? election commission floated this idea in Dec 2001. Logic was sound- I want to cast my vote but the I have to select a less criminal or less corrupt person to be my "Bhagya vidhata" for the next 5 yrs.Out of 543 members in 14th lok sabha we have 120 members having criminal record against them.
Someone has rightly said " In democracy once in every five years people experience freedom and then again are sent inside cage for the next 5 yrs."
In each election I am forced to select a less criminal because I have no choice.Our politicians avert many fundamental questions labelling them as "Technical" and say I am proud of my poor/hungry citizens and these are like our parents, we cant hide them.But when questions like less distribution of rice and wheat in PDS shops to these very parents are raised, excuse is given in form of deeply entranched evils in our society.Surprisingly entire hall claps... we subjugate ourselves under his/her false persona ... and we silently let the deficiency of system to rule over us...
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Kamal you are correct to a certain extent that we must be free whether to cast our vote or not. But i echo what Rahul Gandhi said that we must participate in democracy and best way is to cast our vote. Instead of just cribbing about the system we must become part of the system and try to make it efficient in the long run.
i second what Goel says. In true sense democracy is the form of government whose power comes from the people. Casting a vote which would not bring about any change in the system would be wasting this power. It is only when the civil society collectively decides to throw away a corrupt leader would we find a change taking place. And the facts that you have mentioned above may be correct, but in the Indian context one is innocent until proven guilty, this benefit of doubt thus automatically extends to our elected representatives too.
Criminalisation is taking place because of apathy of people in the political processes. Each of us feel that our vote is not going to make a difference and thus we fail collectively. The decision of not casting a vote will futher aggravate this situation. The need of hour is to support good people and vote for them collectively. Apart from that more power should be distributed to government agencty at lower level so that misuse of power could be checked. Unless and until we stand divided on the basis of caste,creed and religion nothing can be improved.
I think Kamal is right in pointing out the uncricitical thinking we are having towards leaders of high stature. Having visited Amethi for the fieldwork I know what kind of shameful poverty is prevalent there. Rahul Gandhi may be proud of this poverty but I call it shameful because we got independence 62 years ago and still we are not able to achieve poverty eradication. Instead of feeling ashamed of this fact, people like Mr. Gandhi are using rhetorics to garner votes. i am also amazed the way we took his statements to be true. Is this because he is Rahul Gandhi? I was puzzled how come he can win elections from Amethi where he has done nothing substantial. But seeing the kind of response he got in the IRMA auditoriam I got my answer. If we people are not applying critical thinking, how can an illeterate person do so. Then in any meeting or seminar we simply say that the people of this country do not vote judiciously. I think we need to introspect ourselves first.
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