General Elections 2009 - Different Elections

First things first, I am a great supporter for "Vote Pappu Movement", so I commit myself to vote yet again these elections and commit to persuade any Pappu looking to miss out voting to vote!!

Coming back to the topic, I really feel that this election is different. None of the political parties look convincing to win the elections, so everyone is playing safe regarding the plans for post-election alliances. This proves my comment during the vote of confidence won by PM Dr. Manmohan Singh that the vote of confidence makes every political party weak, and hence will make voters stronger. I again assert that I used the term 'voter' instead of people because every election the voters are the ones whose opinion matters and not the Pappu's who do not vote.

A lot of things have changed since last General Elections: economy boosted and busted, political equations spun and swung, but the most important thing I see is that people's awareness of political system has increased. For the first time I am seeing a movement to compell people to vote. Earlier I just used to see political parties pushing their voters to vote, now there are people and institutions trying to make people aware of their voting right. This make me hope that these elections are going to be different. More people are going to vote. More votes being polled means lesser manipulation on the basis of traditional tools of religion, cast, community. I makes populist manipulation of votes a better candidate for winning as it means candidates who used to get 15-20% votes, wont be able to win the election.

Further, just like young generation of politicians, we have a young savvy generation of voters as well. This vote-pool is not going to vote on the basis of traditional criteria, since they themselves are unorthodox, smart and aware. They are going to play significant role as traditional political analysts can not predict their behaviour, leading to more uncertainty in predictions and ultimately the results, Hence making political parties and candidates more uncertain of their positions.

People reading the blog may be wondering if I am writing in dreams or fantasy, but every bit of my comments is true for all the urban constituencies. If my coments look unconvincing take feedback from any candidate rnning from urban constituencies. I am expecting the rural areas to still vote on traditional pattern, but the variation wil start from this election itself. This feeling makes me feel that these are certainly going to be different elections.

Happy Voting 2009!

PS: I would certainly like to post more on these elections. So, keep on looking for this space for more comments.