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.
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