[Assam] Flushing out in election style

[Chan Mahanta]

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.
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>Dilip
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>Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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>  >being yolked together in jam-packed buses and taken to election 
>booths for casting their votes by >various political parties of 
>democratic India.
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>*** 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.
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>At 2:08 PM +0530 7/24/07, Assam.org Webmaster wrote:
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>>On 7/23/07, Satyen Brahma 
>><<mailto:satyen_brahma at yahoo.co.in>satyen_brahma at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
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>>                   Flushing  out  Bangladeshis:  in 'Election Style'
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>>          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.
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>>----Satyen Brahma,
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>>Lokhora,
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>>Guwahati
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