Thursday, May 8, 2008

Right to Vote or Right to Not to Vote

If you dislike to all of the candidates competing in your constituency, you can really speak out and say NO to all. Do you believe this? It’s true. I think this is the extreme of all democratic rights :-)

This option is available in India, under election rules act called 49-O. You can show your dislike to all of them by registering for 49'O.

Steps for doing this:
1. while registering the name at the time of voting, convey the
booth officials that "I want to go for 49'O".
2. Register your signature in the 49'O form available there.

Done.

Now, if the number of 49'O count is larger than that of the winning candidates total vote count, then a re-election is called there.

More than all, the shameful fact is, this 49'O is available ever since 1961, but it is in no way conveyed to the people. Neither the Government has tried to communicate this, nor did the election commission.

As long as the people are unaware of this one, the political parties are enjoying all the powers. To stop this disaster to continue further, we don't need to take a sword and fight against the government.

Just help every citizen to know that they have such a powerful weapon which can be used for ensuring their welfare.
But wondering, if our people (we, the Indians) were that intelligent, haven’t we chosen right people from the time when this rule was passed, when election commission has given such a powerful weapon to us. Let us do this by ourselves…