The issue here is not MY disdain, but the failure of India's
intelligentsia and its representatives abroad, whose biggest
achievement is holding up the facade of 'Indian democracy' to the
world, while its substance is little more than an Indian myth.
The manner in which Indian voters have voted out incumbents and
brought in new governments >several times, with the hope that things
will change -
*** So has CHANGE happened? That is the real test here, isn't it ?
*** Indian voting, by and large is a matter of festivities, of a
holiday in the town for the rural voters, who
rarely go vote on ISSUES, but do so to elect the candidates of their
CASTE, or on the promises that are made, almost always never kept.
And the intelligentsia hardly go vote, since they know it is a joke.
At 7:20 AM -0700 7/24/07, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
It is a pity that you treat the Indian voters with such disdain. The
manner in which Indian voters have voted out incumbents and brought
in new governments several times, with the hope that things will
change - clearly shows money does not always buy votes in India.
As I remember, ballot papers in India do not carry voter
identification and polling booths provide privacy. So, even after
getting a bus ride from a given candidate, what is there to prevent
the voter from voting for any candidate he wants to, once he is
inside the booth? I realize there is group or block voting but that
is another issue, not because they ride in the same bus.
Dilip
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>being yolked together in jam-packed buses and taken to election
booths for casting their votes by >various political parties of
democratic India.
*** For those who have missed it, or at least pretend that they
missed it, it is not just B'Deshis that are herded to voting booths
in democratic India. That is the main method , all over India, even
for the authentic citizens. And those who have the most resources
to treat the revelers and get to the voting booths, win.
At 2:08 PM +0530 7/24/07, Assam.org Webmaster wrote:
On 7/23/07, Satyen Brahma
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Flushing out Bangladeshis: in 'Election Style'
During elections, we find illegal Bangladeshi migrants
being yolked together in jam-packed buses and taken to election
booths for casting their votes by various political parties of
democratic India. There are certain dalals (brokers) who carry out
the process on being paid by the contesting candidates. There is no
reason why such illegal migrants can't be thrown out of Assam by
adopting such steps. I urge the Indian Army to launch such an
operation to weed out Bangladeshis from Assam.
----Satyen Brahma,
Lokhora,
Guwahati
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