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A dangerously long election

At the best of times it is a bad idea to allow bureaucrats to run a country. And, here we are in very bad times with the Election Commission ruling India for yet another month. In Sri Lanka the civil war is reaching a horrific climax. As we are in limbo between governments, the Indian response ....Read more

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Long election.By: Narinder Bhardwaj | Monday , 18 May '09 0:22:28 AM Reply | Forward I agree that the election took time but the planning is done by EC. This time the election in bihar and West Begal have shown that rigging was minimal. I am sure by the time we have next election the polling booths will be covered on CCTV and the action in the polling booth will be shown outside to the public in general. The coverage should not cover the EVM place. This will show to the public at large if any rigging is done. For this splitting of election should be accommodated. Efficiency of the staff can be increased to reduce the time gap. We can say Good Job done by EC this time.

Long drawn electionBy: Vic Sangha | Wednesday , 29 Apr '09 17:31:58 PM Reply | Forward Hats off to Tavleen Singh for always writing columns of real relevance. This long drawn out election has brought not laurels but laughter from the world. When the country was far poorer elections were much faster. Elections have become freer and fairer because of the public's non tolerance of nonsense not because of these long drawn schedules. Hopefully some sense will prevail on decision makers in the next round

Security or availability of Trio?By: Appu | Tuesday , 28 Apr '09 21:12:22 PM Reply | Forward Election commission claims it's long because of security. The reality is that Congress has only 3 people to showcase in front of people. The Nehru Namoonas. People won't vote the ugly scoundrel in the rest of Congress. They can't be everywhere at the same time. So, under the guise of security, the Election commission being full of Nehru Chamchas arranged for the trio to cover more constituencies by slicing the time. Clever Huh!

our policiesBy: Ashutosh Kaul | Sunday , 26 Apr '09 21:51:03 PM Reply | Forward Unfortunately our policies are fuzzy without any long term objective. In that respect we should learn from Pakistan. No matter what kind of government is in power their policies towards India remain the same.Taliban are nothing but an instrument of Pakistan's establishment.Tavleen is right. There is no distinction between them and Pak army. They act in synch. Some fixed matches may be played with each other to fool the world but otherwise they are on the same side.

NothingBy: JJJJ | Sunday , 26 Apr '09 1:31:30 AM Reply | Forward How can we forget that more than a thousand Indian soldiers died at the hands of Velupillai Pirabakaran’s guerrillas? Good butHow can we forget that more than TEN thousand of CIVILIANS died at the hands of Rajiv's soldiers?

Nail on the headBy: baski | Sunday , 26 Apr '09 0:40:41 AM Reply | Forward Tavleen Singh has hit the nail on its head. I have been reading her articles since many years. I sincerely hope that the thick heads in Delhi read these articles. I appreciate her work.