Friday, December 12, 2008

Why not

Rule 49-O
The enlightened Indian who woke up after the Mumbai disaster has left me more confused than relieved. I agree as an individual I may not be a expert on approving or not but as a responsible citizen I use my right to my voice.
On this forum id like to raise my objection to the hoard of little informed emails all of us are suddenly flooded with demanding implementation of the act of 1969 demanding the right to vote for ‘none of the above’ well the Election commission does have such a provision where you can display your displeasure on the candidates in the foray by going through the entire process of marking your presence and then inform the polling officer that you will not cast your vote for anybody. Well so far so good but what next do we patiently wait for the institution of public opinion to take its slow course or demand for more accountability from the politicians?
What the E.C needs to be really looking into the percentage of votes cast to the winning candidate as it is a recorded fact most of our elected leaders do not enjoy popular support i,e they are not in power because they gathered more than 50% of the votes but only coz they got more than the last candidate. Anybody taking note?

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