257. If only you vote, it can be changed into some another candidate’s symbol in the EVMs...! If you do not vote, what will they manipulate and change?

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If only you vote, it can be changed into some another candidate’s symbol in the EVMs...! If you do not vote, what will they manipulate and change?

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

Article Title Image By Cliff Hang. Graphics: Adobe SP.

Isn’t it if only you vote can someone change it into some other person’s symbol in a machine? If your vote is not cast, what will they manipulate and change? That is the revenge the new generation of India is taking on the authorities who claim that their voting machines are infallible and never can be manipulated or tampered with- in a world where tampering is rampant and there is only manipulation in the electronics field. So they are not casting votes. The number of people casting votes is dwindling with each election. No one likes to have one’s vote cast in a machine in an election changed in an electronic coup that is prearranged to change a certain percentage of votes caste in a machine to a particular symbol, i.e. even before the votes are cast. In their eyes the electronic voting machines have no credibility as a democratic apparatus and they prefer the time-tested ballot paper. Today, the young generation of India who is mobile-phone-and-computer-tech-savvy is fully aware that only the Election Commission, the Central BJP and the Reliance-Adanis who are behind this rule and who are the only beneficiaries like it today, i.e. this changing of votes in the voting machines, because that is how they came to and remain in power and are able to loot and annex state's properties.

The young generation is the majority of voters in India today. The trend of not voting is spreading among them today. When an Election Commissioner asks them to vote either through a campaign or a legislation, when the Commission decidedly drains crores of rupees to the corrupt bureaucracy to campaign for voting, this young tech-savvy generation thinks that the Commissioner is a Hindu Rashtra partisan and not a well-known democratic campaigner, that being an IAS appointee his seat could be had anytime by them through their cleverness and competitiveness but one they chose not to have considering it as a political slave’s job after the incorruptible T. N. Seshan’s time, and that he is inferior to them intellectually and patriotically and therefore they needn’t or shouldn’t listen to him. That is the well-conceived decision of the new educated generation of India today. No one can alter their convictions arrived at through observations and results.

It is not because the Indian Nation Congress which is now in the opposition does not know that if the ballot papers are brought back, the picture will change and also the administration with it but if the ballot papers are not returned, they are not ready to take a decision and protest that the people will not vote. That is their deception. It is not intended here to go into what their intentions are today, but in today's Indian political conditions, the Congress need make only that one protest, only one struggle, and it would have its results too, but they are not making it. But without anyone's struggle or call, many people in India have taken a decision that they will not vote unless the ballot papers are brought back. They are the silent opposition in India today- the real defenders of democracy. Accordingly, the total number of polled votes is generally declining. If you ask whether this is good for democracy, in today's circumstances, it is good for democracy for a while, because it will show eventually that it is a government of fascists and manipulators in power who have no mandate of the majority of the people, who remain in power only with the help of manipulated in voting machines and rigged elections.

That’s the people’s daunting challenge that ‘you can go and do whatever you want, whatever you like, but remember that it is without our vote that you are in power’. What else can a section of people who always believe only in democracy, secularism and republicanism do when the constitutional institutions are apparently fighting with the constitution itself without any shame, fear or concealment to establish a corporate-controlled Hindu state?

Being in power without the vote of a large section of the people is weak, a fragile situation, no major decisions can be taken, and it will always be a fear for the government. If the nexus of the BJP, the extreme Hindu organizations and the vacillating constitutional institutions decide to seize, come to or remain in power through mechanized voting systems, and on the other hand even if the opposition parties including the Indian National Congress do not take any decision on this or anything at all, there are some people on the other hand today here who take some decisions. What shakes the government and the entire number of people who got entangled in that shanty group is that if a tally of the number of non-voters is taken, if that information is collected caste and religion-wise, the majority of them would be shown to be Hindus themselves. This is an element of optimism that this phase will pass and democracy and ballot paper will return.

Written on 05 February 2024 and first published on: 13 May 2024

Original article in Malayalam written on 05 February 2024 and first published on: 25 April 2024

SM1574. വോട്ടിട്ടാലല്ലേ അതുമറിച്ചു് വേറേചിഹ്നത്തിലാക്കാ൯പറ്റൂ...! വോട്ടിട്ടില്ലെങ്കിലെന്തുചെയ്യും, എന്തിനെയെടുത്തിട്ടുമറിക്കും?
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255. Are the April-May-June Months of 2024 in India the carnival days of democracy or the proclamation days of Hindu Rashtra theocracy? Where has the democracy that was here gone?

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Are the April-May-June Months of 2024 in India the carnival days of democracy or the proclamation days of Hindu Rashtra theocracy? Where has the democracy that was here gone?

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

Article Title Image By Adobe Stock. Graphics: Adobe SP.

Are the April-May-June Months of 2024 in India the carnival days of democracy or the proclamation days of Hindu Rashtra theocracy? Where has the democracy that was here gone? Where has the democratic respect that was here for elections gone? Where has that discipline in electoral processes and propaganda gone? Do they intend to cover up failures of government, serious irregularities and their anti-nationalism through celebratory approaches to election? In what sense does the media which is under the inducement and total control of the central government celebrate, depict and propagate election as a festival of democracy? From the District Collectors in charge of elections in the districts and the Election Officers in charge of elections in the state to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the centre- why do they hold elections are a carnival and an occasion for festivity? Is it because they are inappropriate persons who should not even be allowed to come close to politics or official duties that they do not see any impropriety in this view?

As the Dominican priest Savo Narola in the city of Florence in Italy in the fifteenth century during the Pre-Renaissance pointed his hand angrily and shouted the warning, aren’t the many Sir. Lorenzos of this land making festivals grow as an addiction in society and in people’s minds as a prelude to installing their autocratic and fascist rule? Isn’t this intoxication being spread even to elections to make people forget and ignore their democratic rights, citizens’ responsibilities and duties and shed common vigilance? Even after knowing that democracy is in danger and has almost disappeared, isn’t there any one in the Executive, Legislature, Judiciary, Media and Political Parties to speak up? Even after that warning, in front of the people who did not heed it, was it not in the same Italy that Benito Mussolini's dictatorial regime grew up, joined with Hitler's fascists in Germany, and taking also Japan into the league, carried out the greatest invasions, mass murders and misery in the history of the world?

As part of this premeditated democratic carnival, on 20 April 2024 when the elections were held in Manipur, armed gangs of Meythi community terrorist groups attacked polling booths and destroyed the electronic voting machines of the BJP and the Election Commission. Eleven booths went for re-polling and curfew. There and also in West Bengal where the elections were held on the same day, the Central Police stood by and watched as spectators for the benefit of the BJP who were the beneficiaries of this inaction. The same was repeated throughout the country, like the beatings and stabbings going on in the midst of festive drunkenness in carnival grounds! So this was what the election festival was for?

On 25 April 2024, the State Chief Election Officer of Kerala Sanju Kaul, the state’s Chief Secretary V. Venu, Chief of Police Darvesh Sahib, Chief Secretary's Staff Officer Arjjun Pandtyan, Additional Chief Election Officers C. Sharmmila and V. R. Premkumar and quite a few other high officers of the Election Commission and Department, all overly impatient for spending money that is not theirs lavishly as their own and writing thick vouchers, joined together in Trivandrum, gathered a number of college students and women students along who had no other jobs, and organized something which they said was ‘the election festival and the pride of the country’, with such performances as Kalari Payattu, Oppana, Theyyam, Marggam Kali, Puli Kali, Pancha Vaadyam, Chenta Melam, and the marital-life-tired-aged-politicians-and-bureaucrats’-eagerly-awaiting Thaalappoli and Thiruvaathira Kali, and besides, to delight their eyes (not people’s!), a platoon of horse-mounted police and also a roller skating team, and paraded through the city streets with all these accouterments shouting slogans such as ‘Your Vote, Your Voice’ and ‘Vote For Your Land’! Why should they notify an election and campaign for voting this way? As soon as the Election Commission has issued a notification for election, a notification and a call for voting have come into effect. Isn’t it enough?

But here they also held an election announcement pageant in addition! This is the change that came in government officers after the global scammer Pinarayi Vijayan became the Chief Minister of Kerala. They also termed it ‘Systematic Voting Education and Electoral Participation’. As usual, someone gave a short name ‘Sweep’ too to this expensive charade and sat down in his office preening his feathers like a rooster. However, the polling on 26 April 2024, the day after this governmental election travesty and money drain, saw a seven percent drop from the previous polls in the number of people voted!

It was Leonardo da Vinci and Michael Angelo who were paid money and summoned and brought by the officials and politicians of Sir. Lorenzo-The Medici in Florence city to exquisitely design the floats and dresses to be paraded in the not-too-infrequent day-night carnival processions which were to remain an unforgettable, haunting, lovely, never-to-vanish-from-the-eyes spectacle in people’s minds for a lifetime and to remain a story for generations-to-come so that people will sway and swinge and dance and forget their political duties and responsibilities. Here in Trivandrum, in this official governmental election cavalcade, they did not go that far because they had no capacity for that.

BJP's Prime Minister Narendra Modi also said he sees India's elections as a carnival and occasion for festivity. On 7 May 2024 in the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections, after voting in the constituency of his home minister Amit Shah in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Narendra Modi said that '2024 is like the carnival of democracy and that all the people of the country should participate in the festival'.

Written on 19 April 2024, edited since, and first published on: 12 May 2024

Original article in Malayalam written on 19 April 2024, edited since, and first published on: 10 May 2024

SM1585. ഇ൯ഡൃയിലു് 2024 ഏപ്രിലു്-മേയു്-ജൂണു് മാസങ്ങളിലു് നടക്കുന്നതു് ജനാധിപത്യത്തി൯റ്റെ ഉത്സവദിനങ്ങളോ ഹിന്ദുരാഷ്ട്രമതാധിപത്യത്തി൯റ്റെ വരവറിയിപ്പുദിനങ്ങളോ? ഇവിടെയുണു്ടായിരുന്ന ജനാധിപത്യമെവിടെപ്പോയി?
https://sahyadrimalayalam.blogspot.com/2024/05/1585-2024.html