[Assam] Flushing out in election style

[SANDIP DUTTA]

I once met a cabbie in Kolkata who said he worked for CPM as a part time cadre but on voting day he would vote for TC (Mamata).

So bus rides and sops are not enough to cloud individual judgement - even for semi literates like the cab driver.

Rgds,
Sandip



----- Original Message ----
From: Dilip/Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com>
To: Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net>
Cc: Satyen Brahma <satyen_brahma at yahoo.co.in>; mitra at desiwriter.com; Assam.org Webmaster <webmaster at assam.org>; assam at assamnet.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:50:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Flushing out in election style


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 <cmahanta at charter.net> 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 <satyen_brahma at yahoo.co.in> 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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