The Democratic Process Wins

 The election results. Finally they are out. I do not know the exact tally as a few rounds still remained last I checked. Yet the picture was quite clear then.

Why the title of this blog? To begin with, this time, as it suited them perfectly, the Opposition Parties did NOT repeat a replay of their 'blame the EVM' game. In my opinion, this is a great win for the democratic process as once and for all, now it is established beyond doubt that the EC conducts the elections fairly. 

Sure I could not vote because in my ward, except me, even dead people, possibly non-existent voters, all were there in the voters' list. Such bureaucratic lapses were not heaped on to the EC by the Opposition Parties which is a great democratic gain not just this time, but forever, as it is proved indubitably that all is fair! As for me, I am happy to know that at least the Income Tax Department never de-lists me!

In brief, institutions that are the fulcrum of any operating democracy must never be demeaned. The election results have cleansed at least one systemic base of the democratic process, namely the EC, of any culpability, and I feel elated, even when, as for myself, personally I could not vote, despite trying a lot.

Yet another takeaway in my opinion is that we are India, we are not America! Want to know why? Despite disappointing results, there was not any rioting on the roads. Remember the Capitol onslaught? No such shenanigans in India, please!  'Foreign hand', moreover, did not intervene in the Indian election process, unlike the U.S.!

In other words, the Indian democracy, given the sheer numbers, is not merely the largest. It is absolutely mature as well.

Now onwards, the dirty politicking may begin as was hinted/openly stated by very many anchors and the experts on their 'debates'. That is none of my business so long as the good practices of the earlier government do not get derailed in sheer retaliation because the nation and its stability should matter the most, right? Our status at home and in the world matters the most, right? 

Surely introspections and equations et al will go on and on. Such tamasha matters hardly so long as the democratic process wins! Just a passing thought incidentally! Psephology, like astrology, seems to be more a belief system, often practised without much depth, right?

Pratima@ A wonder it is, is not it, how/why huuuuuge crowds do not translate in to votes? What exactly could be the reason? Not only the leaders but the voters, too, must walk the talk by being responsible, actually going to the booth and voting beyond any temptations and/or threats, right? Yet another takeaway, right, that neither money nor muscle power (no major mention at all of either in this election!) nor caste/religious equations  nor optics nor any kinds of tool kits matter! The democratic process alone wins!