I am not talking about the last Guns and Roses album. What I am referring to is the state of the Indian democracy as practiced by UPA and the rajgharaana i.e. the Gandhi Family for whom India is their own fiefdom. They will try to hold onto the PM seat at any cost just like one party system in China. Of course in India, they can't bulldoze people so they have to adopt more devious ways.
For the family responsible for an almost lethal wound to our democracy during the emergency period, corruption and hypocrisy are small potatoes. But still some of those are worth a visit. UPA has been tightening the noose on Mayawati in order to regain UP. Mayawati was accused by the UPA of making too many monuments to herself and the BSP. Mayawati's acts are indefensible but Congress's own acts must be brought to light. Mr. A Surya Prakash, an intrepid journalist from the Daily Pioneer, has a on his blog which contains the names of over 450 projects around the nation with Gandhi family names on them. The cost of all these projects dwarfs Mayawati's own ego trip projects.
As soon as the UPA won the election the Congress gave plum position to family loyalists. The post, which should be non-partisan, was given to a Gandhi family loyalist Navin Chawla. We can all guess why was that done. Congress's vote percent in the last two elections has been less than 30%. Without the divided electorate, they will be nowhere near the seat of power. Which is why it becomes very important to make sure the vote counting goes their way. Even in a mature and a fair democracy like the USA, things go wrong as they did in 2000. Electronic voting machines have been considered suspect even in the US.
One such person in India a Mr. Hari Prasad was arrested when he made claims about how the Indian EVM’s (Electronic Voting Machines) can be hacked. The media laughed at people who made such claims in the aftermath of the last elections. But now multiple people including Mr. Prasad have shown that to be true because of which he has been arrested. Reports of his arrest have not been covered in the mainstream media. People in the US have come to his defense and have written a letter to the new EC Mr. S M Qureshi (am sure he is another Gandhi family loyalist).
Whatever the case maybe, Mr. Prasad should be released with apologies from the EC and the UPA government. Maybe the opposition can bury their hatchets and force the abysmally corrupt UPA govt. to make enquiries into the EVMs. We cannot undo the damage from the last election but we sure can prevent another incompetent person from becoming PM.
For the family responsible for an almost lethal wound to our democracy during the emergency period, corruption and hypocrisy are small potatoes. But still some of those are worth a visit. UPA has been tightening the noose on Mayawati in order to regain UP. Mayawati was accused by the UPA of making too many monuments to herself and the BSP. Mayawati's acts are indefensible but Congress's own acts must be brought to light. Mr. A Surya Prakash, an intrepid journalist from the Daily Pioneer, has a on his blog which contains the names of over 450 projects around the nation with Gandhi family names on them. The cost of all these projects dwarfs Mayawati's own ego trip projects.
As soon as the UPA won the election the Congress gave plum position to family loyalists. The post, which should be non-partisan, was given to a Gandhi family loyalist Navin Chawla. We can all guess why was that done. Congress's vote percent in the last two elections has been less than 30%. Without the divided electorate, they will be nowhere near the seat of power. Which is why it becomes very important to make sure the vote counting goes their way. Even in a mature and a fair democracy like the USA, things go wrong as they did in 2000. Electronic voting machines have been considered suspect even in the US.
One such person in India a Mr. Hari Prasad was arrested when he made claims about how the Indian EVM’s (Electronic Voting Machines) can be hacked. The media laughed at people who made such claims in the aftermath of the last elections. But now multiple people including Mr. Prasad have shown that to be true because of which he has been arrested. Reports of his arrest have not been covered in the mainstream media. People in the US have come to his defense and have written a letter to the new EC Mr. S M Qureshi (am sure he is another Gandhi family loyalist).
Whatever the case maybe, Mr. Prasad should be released with apologies from the EC and the UPA government. Maybe the opposition can bury their hatchets and force the abysmally corrupt UPA govt. to make enquiries into the EVMs. We cannot undo the damage from the last election but we sure can prevent another incompetent person from becoming PM.
Rajeev Srinivasan wrote an article on the subject which is definitely worth reading.
http://rajeev.posterous.com/can-electronic-voting-machines-subvert-electi
http://rajeev.posterous.com/can-electronic-voting-machines-subvert-electi
American computer scientists have come to the defense of Hari Prasad. That article can be read at:
http://short.piks.nl/site.php?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freedom-to-tinker.com%2Fblog%2Fjhalderm%2Felectronic-voting-researcher-arrested-over-anonymous-source
http://short.piks.nl/site.php?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freedom-to-tinker.com%2Fblog%2Fjhalderm%2Felectronic-voting-researcher-arrested-over-anonymous-source
A letter to the EC from a a number of people in the US is at this URL:
http://www.usenix.org/events/evtwote10/final-letter-eci.pdf
http://www.usenix.org/events/evtwote10/final-letter-eci.pdf
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