Dear Friends
I think th people of India feel that they are let out by the politicians
That may be the reason for lower voters turnout.
One more thing, they are left with choosing one from the bunch of bad/worst elements.
Also, their continuous franchising exercise could only help the candidate with upward growth and the poor voters who had voted remain at the same position of what they are for all these years. That may be the reason for the reluctancy to go for the voting
I think it is high time, we must analyse the reason for this reluctancy and try to improve on that - as selecting candidate on 50% polling strength is not good for a country which solely depends on democracy.
Are the Indian People, living in so called biggest democratic country of the world, loosing interest/faith in Democracy?
Regards
Surendran
--- In India_Vision_
>
> Dear Mr Sathish,
>
> Your concern is genuine.
> One reason can be economic recession. The other can be losing faith in
> political parties rather than democracy.
> This time 4,617 candidates from over 300 political parties and Independents
> contested for 543 Lok Sabha seats to be decided by an electroate of over 714
> millions, yet with diminished percentage of polling.
>
> A national level senior political leader said -
> *"not once in our history, since the first general elections in 1952, has a
> government been formed that commanded over 50 per cent of the polled votes.
> All the governments at the Centre had more people voting against them than
> supporting them. The closest to reach the majority mark was the Rajiv Gandhi
> government in 1984 that polled 48.1 per cent with 415 seats. The lowest was
> the 1998, the NDA government whose alliance polled 36.2 per cent. In 2004,
> both the Congress and the BJP together polled only 40 per cent. If democracy
> is the rule of the majority, then that has not yet been established.
>
> We have no other go except to sail with instable coalitions.
>
> Regards,
>
> On 4/24/09, Vernkatraman Rajendran <venkrajen@.
> >
> >
> >
> > The analysis by Sathish (that the poll per centage this time has
> > reduced) is really causing conern. Does it mean that the youth are getting
> > more disillusioned with the electoral process and the democratic system. I
> > only wish I were wrong. In fact I pray I should be wrong. But what else
> > that this indicate? Psephologists to throw more light please. We say that
> > more and more youth are concerned about nation building, literacy per
> > centage has increased, awareness has risen, political interest is now
> > enhanced and there is a wide-spread youth awakening. But what does this
> > analysis indicate?
> >
> > V Rajendran
> > Secy Cyber Society of India, Chennai
> >
> > --- On *Fri, 4/24/09, Sathish <sathishsp@.
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Sathish <sathishsp@.
> > Subject: [India_Vision_
> > To: India_Vision_
> > Date: Friday, April 24, 2009, 7:13 PM
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I was just looking at the poll percentage of the 2009 elections. Since two
> > phases of elections are over..I was really worried on seeing the poll
> > percentage. The number of peoples turnout for voting was considerably less
> > when compared to 2004 elections. Recently in the second phase of elections
> > only 55% were recorded.
> >
> > Phase 2 Elections poll turnuot
> >
> > *State 2004 2009*
> > Andhra 72 68
> > Assam 69 62
> > Bihar 57 44
> > Goa 59 55
> > J&K * 45 46*
> > Jarkhand 57 47
> > Karnataka 62 55
> > MP 49 45
> > Maharastra *55 56*
> > Manipur 56 65
> > Orissa 68 55
> > Tripura * 67 80*
> > UP 46 44
> >
> > *Total 59 55*
> >
> > Only Tripura has did a good job. I don't think those peoples are influenced
> > by Internet and online campaigns.
> >
> > What happened to the online vote campaign, online awareness on the
> > importance of voting. Seemed to be a election with more number of young
> > votes...but less number of votes registered when compared to 2004 elections.
> > Does this proves that the approach was totally failed ? what is the result
> > of the "n" number of NGO's working on this for past years ?
> >
> > Wish to have some good numbers in the third and final phase of elections.
> > And that too for sure In tamil nadu we need a change....lets see...!
> >
> > One thing I am sure that.....we have to change the approach for making the
> > peoples vote. Let's think differently.
> >
> > Jai Hind...!
> >
> > With love*...Sathish*
> > *Blossom Foundation.*
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Babji. Y,
> PR Practitioner & Teacher
>
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