Comments on: COMPULSORY VOTING : TO BE OR NOT TO BE – Srinivas.Katta

By: P S Remesh Chandra.

P S Remesh Chandra. — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:24:17 +0000

It is a question whether Europe is capable of leading India or qualified to be an example to the Orient. Countries like India and China in the Orient have a strict and well organized and disciplined family structure. They bring up their children in their own bed rooms and have strict and unviolatable ethical codes in society. Children are never allowed to decide things for themselves so that wise consul of old people will be behind every decision taken in the society. Marriages are for life there and parents and partners are never left away in their old age. But in the West things are entirely different. It is dogs that parents allow to sleep in their rooms along with them, and children, even toddlers, are not allowed to sleep in parents’ rooms. The psychological chasm developed between them can never be bridged again, so old people are not looked after by their grown up children in the west generally. And no one please not be offended; marriages often last a single season and insecurity among children in great. These are all examples which prove that in matters which directly concern all members of the Indian society, India and other countries in the Orient have their own identity and solutions and West needn’t lead the way. If the western ways were adopted in social and family relations, India would have crumbled far earlier. Then, in the matter of voting, why should we commit ourselves to the foolery of the west? Indian politicians who quote the west are throwing stone a little ahead the dog so that it will invariably hit. They want explanations for making voting compulsory. Some cheap politicians in India are thrilled by the very mention of names such as Australia, Belgium, Holland and they have no feeling at all when the name of India is mentioned. It is in these countries that their loot is stored, not in India.

Voting is not an obligation the state has a right to expect from citizens, it is just a privilege. Countries in which failed and corrupted peoples’ representatives can never be called back, and what salaries and allowances are to be paid to peoples’ representatives are not decided through a national referendum but decided by the representatives themselves in their assemblage have no right to compel people to compulsorily vote for them. Why should deny the citizen alone his right to decide basic things and decide whether to vote or not? Voting should be a conditional support because there is no guarantee that a government should fulfill their part of the conditions. If the citizen feels that the things promised to him have been achieved, he will certainly vote in an election without the coercion of anyone. But if he feels otherwise, it is his right not to vote, for those who betrayed him or for those who may betray him. What a government with proven anti-people sentiments and motives would really want is to claim that they have full people’s mandate for their actions. Without mandate they have no power, authority, positions, riches, money, and fortune. Therefore it is their need to make voting compulsory, not people’s. If a government does well he can vote. If he feels otherwise, he will not vote. People hate governments with a corrupt and incapability record and will desire to call all representatives back. Will these politicians in Gujarat dare demand such legislation? There is a list of countries here that made voting compulsory. But there is not any list here that shows the names of super power countries that does not allow its citizens a public vote and an election. Are the Gujarat and Indian politicians bold enough to condemn countries such as China for allowing not a vote and election?

By: Bhagavan Reddy Eedula

Bhagavan Reddy Eedula — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:55:53 +0000

it should be. but why Gujarat Governor rejected that bill till now i couldn’t understand.

By: Sameer Dharmasastha

Sameer Dharmasastha — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:54:35 +0000

compulsary voting rule’s intention is nt to pumish those who did’nt vote but to make them feel guilty 7 embrased not for casting their vote!

By: Ekambar Kodali

Ekambar Kodali — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:52:35 +0000

Ballot box/Voting is the first step of Democracy and Democratic processes. Unfortunate fact in India is that this PRIMARY STEP of Democratic Process is ENDING at Ballot Box of Public and rest every thing related to Ruling is happening by the processes and procedures of FEUDAL Mechanisms of inherited FEUDAL systems or BUREAUCRATIC mechanisms inherited from British Rule. India don’t change until this is corrected.
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By: UMA

UMA — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:45:08 +0000

Recently i got one mail from one of my friend saying that there is a system in our constitution, as per the 1969 act, in section “49-O” that a person can go to the polling booth, confirm his identity, get his finger marked and convey the
presiding election officer that he doesn’t want to vote anyone! but i didn’t get any supportive confirmation about this data. Is it true? if we have such provision,it will be a
wonderful weapon against corrupt parties in India..we can show our power,by expressing our desire not to vote for anybody, which is even more powerful than compulsory voting… so please let us know whether there is such provision in the constitution.

By: raju

raju — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:58:12 +0000

your artictle is . Compulsary voting will accelerate india’s growth as better leaders will be elected

By: citizen

citizen — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:06:48 +0000

India desperately needs compulsary voting, because be litreates not voting and political parties fooling rural people by promising free things the elections are becoming open corruption by such offers to people and taking votes, and CONGRESS knows compulsary voting will lead to doomsday of congress and people who dont vote that is almost 50% and out of these if you take 25% votes again congress then congress will be wiped out in elections… so CONGRESS will not allow such laws…

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By: siddhu

siddhu — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:50:41 +0000

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By: michelle

michelle — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:12:59 +0000

your blog’s information is useful, thanks to india current affairs for useful features. voting should be out of own volition rather than through coercion”.
“If people who are ignorant or not interested are made to vote compulsorily, it would constitute a bad vote. In absence of negative voting provisions, the electronic voting machines would not distinguish such votes”

By: reema

reema — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:52:42 +0000

compulsory voting is just an impractical fantasy….especially in a country like India…and anyhow its democracy that we live in which itself says that voting is a RIGHT and not a DUTY…IF WE HAVE RIGHT TO VOTE THEN WE ALSO HAVE RIGHT TO CHOOSE WHETHER WE DO OR DO NOT WANT TO VOTE!

By: rajan

rajan — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:04:51 +0000

election process is good, it may increase the voting.