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The joint war waged by the BJP, the Election Commission and the Supreme Court to prevent the return of ballot papers and to maintain electronic voting machines is itself the proof that the elections are being rigged in India
P. S. Remesh Chandran
Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
The joint battle by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Election Commission and the Supreme Court to prevent the return of ballot papers and to retain electronic voting machines is itself the proof that the elections are being rigged in India. What more proof is needed as far as the people are concerned? What proof other than that is needed? Why do they have such a strong concern in this? No matter how the vote is recorded- be it by machine or on paper- won't it be enough for them to count it? Are they not counting currency notes because there is more to count?
Since when the BJP came into power in 2014 and a number of individuals, organizations and factions from different parts of the country, even those in the union cabinet and the parliament, began to raise Hindu Rashtra slogans and demands, all actions taken by these three during the past ten years regarding how elections should be conducted in India were in the belief, determination and hope that if the BJP were in anyway helped to pass the present and most probably the last election by betraying democracy and cheating people, they will finally be able to create a Hindu Rashtra by toppling democracy, republicanism and non-secularism, and whatever happens after that to them three will be looked after and taken care of by the new laws, rules and procedures in this new Hindu Rashtra. In fact, not a single action was taken on the part of the three of them in the last ten years which would hinder or delay this common program of theirs. These actions include the BJP's political decisions, their Central Government's various legislations, the Election Commission's directives, and the Supreme Court's judgments. How come there is identicalness and accord in everything these?
They fear the financial and religious power of the proponents of Hindu Rashtra, those who embarked on the creating of the Hindu Rashtra by toppling the present non-secular republic and take steps, make laws and issue orders accordingly. If they do this even when knowing well that after doing this they may not survive in the tomorrow’s world with their today’s personality, then they must be having the sure knowledge that through their actions of today the very structure of the country’s systems and administration are going to be changed. But such knowledge, however, they do not seem to have passed on to the people. That is what gave people the courage to criticize and question them, and made it their duty in a democracy.
They came this far with capturing the rule of India twice through their relentless and unscrupulous campaign among the illiterate and the undereducated Hindus that perilous preparations were on with the help of the Muslim countries of the world to make India a Muslim country by 2047, and that therefore there was no way of escape without creating a Hindu state before this Muslim state came into being in India. They hastily completed this campaign at a fast pace and secured power even before the question of if the Christian and Muslim countries of the world will ever stand spectators and allow the democratic secular republican country of India being converted into a Theo-Corporate Hindu state rose and reverberated throughout the country from the opposite side.
It is their having acted with the determination and assurance in the midst of these that in the meantime they needn’t be ready to answer any of the questions that arise from people from all sides, and that after just two or three months when the General Elections in April-June 2024 are over the people will not even have the power to ask these or any questions at all that gave people the courage and inducement to connect these three to the proposed Hindu Rashtra as sacrificial devotional flowers. When they skipped without answering or even acknowledging people’s rational and reasonable questions such as if it was to reduce the use of paper and prevent forest destruction that they were not printing ballot papers, then didn’t the printing of BJP’s election posters alone cause use of more paper and more resultant forest destruction, were their voting machines linked to the internet or not and what software were they using in their electronic voting machines, the world laughed knowing why they skipped but we didn’t. We did not laugh because we sensed that democracy in India has no guardians now and we the people ourselves are now its guardians- a fact and situation which is something beyond the realms of emotional expressions.
Written on 24 April 2024 and first published on: 01 May 2024
Original article in Malayalam written on 24 April 2024 and first published on: 25 April 2024
SM1576. തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിലു് കൃത്രിമംനടക്കുന്നുവെന്നതിനു് ബാലറ്റുപേപ്പറുകളു് തിരിച്ചുവരാതിരിക്കാനും ഇലകു്ട്രോണിക്കു് വോട്ടിംഗു്മെഷീനുകളു് നിലനി൪ത്താനും ബീജേപ്പീയും ഇലക്ഷ൯കമ്മീഷനും സുപ്രീംകോടതിയുംകൂടിനടത്തുന്ന സംയുക്തയുദ്ധംതന്നെയാണുതെളിവു്
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