Around the polls this was what going through my mind, which i happened to capture in 140 character sentence on Twitter and its developed form is here as follows:
This year, there has been massive campaigning for making the indian voter come out of their homes and cast their votes on the polling dates. Important people from different walks of life came out to campaign for this noble cause; but what was the result. Just above fifty per cent voting has been recorded in most of the parts of the country, though the rurals areas had fared better.
But the celebration or rather euphoria surrounding this 50% voter turnout has been so, as if there has been a 100% turnout ( especially the farce played out by television anchors to radio jocketys regarding the higher turnout in Delhi than in Mumbai or Bangalore). The elections will be successful only when the left out percent of voters also come out and cast their vote. Because it may be the chance that those fifty or forty percent don't want the person/party elected by these sixty/fifty percent. So their vote can actually bring someone from majority to minority. Celebrations should be saved for those times when we have a 70-90% voter turnout and in the meant time efforts should be in place to bring those absentee voters to the polling booth.
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