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

["Dr. Subroto Roy" <sroy@vgsom.iitkgp.ernet.in>]

Does Shri Arvind Kumar or any other IPI critic of Indian democracy have
an
opinion about the recent Assembly elections as expressions of democratic

preference?  If so, and we come to know about it, we would have
something
concrete to talk about.  SR.
-----Original Message-----
From: Arvind Kumar <arvind.kumar@rocketmail.com>
To: debate@indiapolicy.org <debate@indiapolicy.org>
Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 10:41
Subject: Re: Arvind Kumar on India's voters: more nonsense


>---Charu datt <charu@brahms.mmc.lucent.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Completely irrelevant point. The right to choose also involves the
right
>to abstain. A person who abstains should be considered as a person who
>is either open to any of the choices or feels that no choice is good.
>
>Whatever be your arguments, to me it looks like voting for any party in

>USA leads to improving the quality of life of the people while in
india,
>it is the reverse.
>
>-Arvind


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