NOTA (None of the above) got more than 60 lakhs, which is 1%
of total votes, more than many other political parties! 4.4 lakhs Gujarat voters pressed NOTA button, maximum of them from
rural areas, yes not from urban Gujarat!
This meant, these voters determined, got ready, went to the
booth, got into the queue, reached polling machine, and pressed NOTA button.
In recently conducted Vidhan Sabha election in 6 states,
number of NOTA votes were 14 lakhs! That indicates, ratio wise, number of NOTA
voters relatively did not increase on all India level, yet this number is
alarming. This is more relevant, when one understands the teeth less NOTA. SC had rejected the plea to make NOTA
more powerful by rejecting the winner if he gets less than NOTA votes, and go
for fresh election.
Something new is emerging in Indian democracy. Even if NOTA
remains powerless, its effect will be telling on the “biggest democratic
country in the world”, as its number will rise. Legally Indian politicians and
their financiers, namely the big corporates and MNCs/FDIs, electronic media,
etc will still claim victory of democracy but morally they will be rejected by
the people. Worse, even separatists, terrorists will join and may even force
many individuals to refrain from voting and weaken our parliamentary democracy,
which is already hollow due extreme corruption, crime, notwithstanding the
present victory of BJP!
This is alarming, not for the political parties as they are
like ostrich and have become more arrogant after failure of rise of people in
2012 for JLPB and now the failure of AAP to emerge as an alternate, but for the
people themselves who want a new India, which must provide employment,
respectful life to them!
In short, NOTA is
an instrument in the hands of people of India to reject the parliamentary
democracy, reject the present system without even uniting under some
revolutionary party and making a path for people’s democracy! This is
not day dreaming, but very soon, may be in the present Vidhan Sabha election,
NOTA may emerge as the 3rd largest party and threaten the very foundation of
pseudo Indian democracy!!
Should not the true democratic parties demand for empowering
NOTA, that is, reject victory of any candidate if he polls less than the mighty
NOTA?
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