Run up to Election 2019 – Answering the Wrong Question

Part 1              Part 2 Seven phase election expected to kick start April 11. Most to all will be engaged in heated discussions, whom to vote, which party, why or why not, and how to vote. Depending on who you are or who you are talking to invariably discussion comes to the critical juncture with the question, who will you choose between Modi Vs Rahul? Huh!! If it had been TN

 

Run up to election – Voiceless Majority

Part 1 Part 3 I caught your attention with the controversial title, didn’t I 🙂? Dropping the words majority or minority in any gathering is enough to get the conversation heated up. No, I am not using the word majority or minority the way you are thinking. Here the context is with respect to our election outcome. Going by popular vote share most of the time we end up with

 

Run up to Election 2019 – Tamilnadu and the Twin Towers of Periyar and Ambedkar

                                    Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Part 2         Part 3 Election fever picking up with Parliament elections around the corner. Stakes are high for both BJP and Congress, the two big national parties. Last year, 2018, Assembly elections have shown a power shift at State’s level, BJP lost power in few states, Congress did do well compared to previous election but they just scraped through with few additional

 

EVM-VVPAT – They need to stay and going back to ballot paper would be retrograde

EVM (Electronic Voting Machine) is in news again. That it can be hacked and allegations about hacking in earlier elections. No need to get in to which party is saying what. We have seen every party worth its name has taken either side of the fence depending on whether they are in the ruling or opposition, or whether they won or lost the election. Let’s leave that to news channels