Re: Arvind Kumar on India's voters: more nonsense

[Charu datt <charu@brahms.mmc.lucent.com>]

"Dr. Subroto Roy" wrote:

> "We in India claim that we have a mature electorate when it is
> >actually the opposite. The average indian voter is usually illiterate

> >and   politically ignorant. "
>
> More alienated NRI/elite nonsense it seems to me, and an insult to
> Indian democracy.  You may care to read, for example, the chapter by

I second Subroto here.
Consider this- in US elections voter turnout is around 40-50% of the
population
eligible to vote, meaning those registered to vote. A win by getting
50-60% of
the polled vote means that a candidate was voted for by a mere 20-30% of
the
electorate. By contrast Indian voter turnout is much higher, which to me
gives
the elections a much greater democratic legitimacy.

-Charu


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