Electoral scene
Those who are serious about the future of democracy in India might do well to reconsider their emotional over-investment in a rigged electoral system and return to reckoning with a politics of popular movements that seek to disarm power, not through the fakery of elections, but through sustained peaceful mass movements. This doesn’t necessarily mean you abandon elections and electoral politics. It means you see participation in elections as just one aspect of the vocabulary of a new politics. - Shuddhabrata Sengupta.. for full text of post
UP Election Result : Rakesh Tikait ने बताया क्यों उनकी अपील के बाद भी जीत रही BJP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8aMC2k-M9I
Mar 10, 2022 . Voting and Andolan as methods of change need to be seperated, says Tikait. Farmers will still have faith in Andolan process, even though the way of garnering votes goes on a parallel track. Andolan will continue, says tikait as the farmers issues are still pending.
while the Tikait response that the andolan track is distinct from the electoral track..may get those of us in the periphery of governance politics may get us some breath/breadth Those of us who work for system change need to re-examine how distant we are from our goals. We have not not been able to consolidate even the simple gains of democracy. workers and toiling peoples struggles, the women's and gender movement, the peace movement, the environment movements. While there were many in farmers movement who spoke of systemic issues, of organiic, decentralised production and marketing, there wasnt a groundswell of anger to the corporatisation and centralisation/monopolisation of agriculture. The peace movement could not make a dent into the polarisation on communal lines - perhaps the people votes on religious rather than caste lines. Perhaps the perception was that people has to choose btween one strong-man v/s the other , as they have done in Lakhimpur! Eithe way it is not only the Congress that has to introspect. Even the entire middle ground, and new progressive, and alternatives , or even the "Nirman" forces failed along with the "sangharsh". They weren't directly in the fight, but their ideas, values, analysis took a beating.. or are we going to say "pehle aap"?..
(159) "Vote Machines Stolen In UP, Videos Show": Akhilesh Yadav's Shocker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTjtgyEIIPM Mar 8, 2022
The Samajwadi Party, the biggest challenger to the BJP in the recently held assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, has alleged that Electronic Voting machines were being taken away from the counting centres in Varanasi. The machines, kept in a truck, were allegedly being taken out just two days before counting of votes.
Akhilesh Yadav का आरोप, Varanasi में EVM एक जगह से दूसरी जगह ले जाई गईं | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpMq45kZwN0 Mar 8, 2022
अखिलेश यादव (Akhilesh Yadav) ने आरोप लगाया है कि वाराणसी (Varanasi) में ईवीएम को एक जगह से दूसरी जगह ले जाया गया. इसकी कोई सूचना उम्मीदवारों को नहीं दी गई. गाड़ी की सुरक्षा व्यवस्था नहीं थी. सपा कार्यकर्ताओं ने गाड़ी में ईवीएम को पकड़ा है.
UP Election : वाराणसी में पकड़ी गई EVM तो भड़के OP Rajbhar, इस अधिकारी को दे डाली चेतावनी https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxXMxvsRDq4 Mar 8, 2022
भारत समाचार यूपी का सर्वश्रेष्ठ हिंदी न्यूज चैनल है। भारत समाचार न्यूज चैनल राजनीति, मनोरंजन, बॉलीवुड, व्यापार और खेल में नवीनतम समाचारों को शामिल करता है।
Varanasi Video Has Trucks 'Stealing' Voting Machines: Akhilesh Yadav https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/48-hours-before-counting-akhilesh-yadavs-voting-machine-charge-in-up-2811008
As videos of some EVMs in the truck are being circulated on social media, the District Magistrate of Varanasi said the EVMs were not the ones used for voting and are just being used for "hands-on training".
Accusing "some political parties" of "spreading rumours", District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said the EVMs used in the elections "are all sealed in the strong room in the possession of CRPF and there is CCTV surveillance which is being watched by people of all political parties". The EVMs, he added, were going to a local college from the storage area at the Mandi counting centre.
The counting of votes for the mammoth seven-phase elections in Uttra Pradesh will take place on Thursday
All IndiaReported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Anindita SanyalUpdated: March 08, 2022
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Up until 1976, seats in the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, and state assemblies were reallocated to maintain nearly equal population representation. But the 42nd Amendment froze the number of seats until the 2001 Census.
https://theprint.in/opinion/delimitation-in-india-north-vs-south/2589801/
The 50-year freeze on the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies—initiated during the Emergency in 1976 for an initial 25-year period—has now snowballed into an acrimonious debate between the South and the North. As scholar Ravi K Mishra’s recent book Demography, Representation and Delimitation shows, the current discourse is riddled with factoids overshadowing facts.
Multiple issues—ranging from intra-state equity and parity among Lok Sabha MPs to the Finance Commission’s population-based fund devolution—have been collapsed into one, posing a serious challenge to building consensus on this contentious issue.
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Indian Electoral Politics: Shifting Sands
Seven decades down the line the electoral scene has changed for the worse and is currently dominated by emotive issues. The foundation of derailing the ‘this worldly’ issues was the Ram Temple movement. This movement became stronger after the implementation of Mandal Commission report. Since then the domination of emotive, identity issues is on the rise. This is reflected by the fact that in 2019, no party dared to utter the word secularism, as claimed by the winner of 2019 elections, Mr. Narendra Modi himself. He presented it as a trophy for the efforts of RSS-BJP’s political success.
https://countercurrents.org/2022/11/indian-electoral-politics-shifting-sands/
It is in this track that any issue can be given a religious turn as we witnessed its peak in the coining of phrase ‘Corona Jihad’. This showed how electoral politics can be reduced merely to game of identity issues. BJP has mastered this art over a period of last few decades. The media, which is prostrating to BJP ideology, is putting its best efforts to magnify the doings of communal stream.
Not to be left behind, Arvind Kejrival is trying to compete which these divisive efforts revolving around identity issues, in his own unique smart ways. The AAP, which in a way, is an alternate model of communal politics; is playing its Hindutva/communal card with shrewdness. Kajriwal party is also an example of blind subservience to the dictator by the other leaders of that party. As Kejriwal demanded this; all his cronies, stated saying the same. The peak of this was Atishi Marlena, who stated that this demand of Laxmi-Ganesh is not merely Kejriwal demand, it is the aspiration of 130 crore Indians! Most of the dictatorial tendencies believe they are speaking for the whole country. This is a duplicate of what Narendra Modi, when he was Chief Minister of Gujarat, used to say that he is talking on behalf of Five Crore Gujratis. India needs a party which can accommodate all sections of society with equality and dignity, apart from welfare; it also promotes employment and proactively deals with marginalized sections of society. We need a party where religion is not mixed with politics. For many, AAP began with a big promise for a better politics, but its reality is there for all to see with its trajectory leading to demanding Laxmi and Ganesh on currency notes and dumping of Jan Lokpal in the dustbin of Hisotry!
2/11/2022