--- On Sun, 26/4/09, ss <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: ss <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Disenfranchised Minorities?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Sunday, 26 April, 2009, 5:35 AM
> On Saturday 25 Apr 2009 10:16:00 am
> Biju Chacko wrote:
> > I'm getting a fair amount of anecdotal evidence to
> support reports
> > that minorities have been systematically
> disenfranchised. Other than
> > the reports in the paper of widespread deletion of
> muslim names from
> > electoral rolls, I've been been hearing a lot from
> Christians as well.
> > I've heard of:
> >
> > * Names marked 'deleted' on the rolls.
> >
> > * Names missing (which were present online just a
> month ago).
> >
> > * Voter Registration attempts being rejected without
> explanation.
> >
> > Even if the cases are not statistically significant
> enough prove
> > anything, the very fact that the stories are making
> the rounds are
> > indicative of the suspicious and mistrustful attitude
> developing in
> > the community. That's definitely worrying -- many
> indications are that
> > Indian society is more divided along caste and
> religious lines now
> > than at any time since independence.
> >
> > *sigh*
> >
> > Time to start moving assets abroad?
> >
> > -- b
>
> Biju have you checked how many Hindus had their names
> deleted?
>
> May I put it to you that when a Christian or Muslim finds
> his name absent it
> is "minority discrimination". When a Hindu finds his name
> absent - it is
> Indian inefficiency and corruption.
>
> Without saying that there is no discrimination, I must
> point out that the
> tactic used by Christianity and Islam, throughout history
> is to continuouly
> allege discrimination and play victim. By design
> Chriatianity and Islam are
> always under attack as evidenced by the ever present
> stories of
> discsimination.
>
> To me this might be another case of crying "wolf" as
> usual.
>
> shiv
I think taking the fact that names are missing, and are regularly excluded from
the lists, point to corruption and to mechanical re-working of the lists at
intervals to show billable activity, rather than to discrimination.
It is obvious that the bulk of names missing from a Hindu majority area will be
Hindu; in a Christian majority area will be Christian; and so on, and so forth.
We should be asking ourselves different questions:
(i) Why cannot I show my PAN card for purposes of identification and then vote,
without any other formal identification being needed? Or my BSNL telephone
bill? Or my driving license?
(ii) Why cannot the voters' id card be left to be issued only to those who have
no other id?
(iii) Why are names systematically mangled and details botched up, not at the
outset, but after they have been correctly recorded in the first instance?
Bring your gang together. Do your thing. Find your favourite Yahoo! group
at http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/
