Tag: VOTER
Does the Development Quotient Cease to be Significant to the Average Indian Voter?
It was not Development but caste and identity that formed the basis of voting in Lok Sabha elections, 2019.
For How Long Do We Bear This Insult as Voters?
Democracy, for us, remains limited to a merely ritualistic act of voting every five years. We have no control over the parties; the candidates are imposed on us. We can at best 'choose' the 'lesser evil'. It is sad that all alternatives have already been branded as either problematic or utopian. Hence, we laugh at a fossilized Gandhi, or an impossible Marx. Or for that matter, Ambedkar, for us, is just a statue.
