TEEKA LAGAO !!

Your Vote. Your Right. Your Might

Go Ahead and plan your role in strengthening our democracy.Excercise your right to vote.

Why should you vote?

- Elected Representatives make the laws and policies that govern how we live. So why not have a say in that.

- Voting is the single most powerful way to send a message to governments and politicians. Even more powerful than candle-marches and hunger-strikes. In assembly elections held recently, the longest-serving democratically elected Communist government in the world was ousted from West Bengal,  the 2G-scam tainted DMK was thrown out of power in Tamil Nadu, the illegal mining BJP lords of Karnataka were defeated and the all-powerful Behenji Mayawati was rejected by UP’s voters.

- If you don’t vote you really should have no right to complain about government decisions you don’t like (no matter how much they actually suck).

-India is the largest democracy in the world. The right to vote and more importantly the exercise of franchise by the eligible citizens is at the heart of every democracy. We, the people, through this exercise of our right to votehave the ultimate power to shape the destiny of country by electing our representatives who run the Government and take decisions for the growth,development and benefit of all the citizens.

 MY VOTE MY GOVERNMENT…MAKE THE REAL DIFFERENCE

Like every year, you know that this July when it rains, you will be stuck in traffic. The streets will fill up and you may have to get out of your car and trudge home through the rivulets, praying that there isn’t an open manhole where you walk. You are going to complain about the clogged drains, and the slums, and the hawkers getting in the way; the crowded trains that stink; the malaria; and then talk about how India needs to be more like London or Singapore, where everything is amazing. Sounds familiar, right?

It’s okay though. You know where to lay the blame – The Goverment. A couple of curses thrown its way and you will carry on through the disorder because that is how it must be. You don’t have the time to bother with all that. Ultimately, you have a nice home to go to, where you can put your feet up and lose yourself in that daily soap. We know. You work hard. You have no time to go vote on a Thursday afternoon. And if you get some time off, well, you need a break. You aren’t going to run across the city for something as pointless as voting.

But this monsoon, when you’re stuck in traffic somewhere, trying to get to a doctor so you can get tested for malaria, we want you to remember that Thursday afternoon and blame yourself. If you don’t vote, you can’t complain. This year, we urge you to vote.

So you’re young, a student, and you believe the world is your oyster because India is booming and the opportunities are many. Why should you care about the economy and rising prices? There’s still time right?

Wrong. Time is short, and you should really be asking the government what they’re doing about this.

BE SMART VOTE SMART.

PROUD TO BE VOTER !!  READY TO VOTE !!

What are the basic do’s and don’t’s as polling day

approaches?

 As a voter you should also know the aspects that are considered as

corrupt practices or electoral offences:

(i) Offering or accepting money or any other gratification either to vote for

or not to vote for a particular candidate.

(ii) Inducement by way of liquor, feast, gifts, etc. to vote for or not to vote

for a particular candidate.

(iii) Inducement to vote or not to vote for a particular candidate on the

grounds of religion, caste, community, sectarian beliefs or place of

birth.

(iv) Threat to an elector of ex-communication if he votes for or against a

particular candidate.

(v) Offer of free conveyance to any elector to go to or from any polling

Station.