How I Voted This Time

Strange are the ways of the voters Including that of yours truly). Even for educated ones ( I presume I belong to this category) all sort of strange considerations come into pcture when they press the button on the voting machine.
Take my daughter, she voted for the Aam Admi Party (AAP) in the Delhi assembly elections. This time the party was a strict no-no. The reason? She heard from some animal rights activists that AAP chief and ex-Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal didn’t like dogs barking outside his residence and wanted them to be removed! So Ashish Khetan, dog-hating Arvind’s frontman lost a vote. in his New Delhi parliamentary constituency. Instead her vote went to an independent.
I can’t complain about that. For years I have been voting for independents mostly in a vain attempt to ensure that they did not lose their security deposits. Once I voted for a guy who belonged to a party with a fancy name called Baba Jai Gurudev party because its manifesto promised the end of Kali Yuga and the advent of Satyuga.
You may wonder whether it was the right thing to do for a man who boasts about his high IQ and rationalist mindset all the time But when people vote on the basis of promises equally impossible to fulfill are even if it is possible to fulfill them are put on the backburner after the polls, I don’t see anything wrong with my choice. Once I even voted for a guy because he had a lush well-waxed moustache, the kind few MPs had.. Unfortunately he lost. If he had won, I am sure he would have left a distinctive makr on parliament because of his formidable lip hair.
So to whom did my vote go this time.? Never mind the candidates themselves. Let us take the party top honchos instead. . They decided the way my vote will go After all, the parties are seeking votes on the basis of mugs of their top honchos—Rahul Gandhi for Congress, Narendra Modi for BJP and Arvind Kejriwal for AAP.
For over a week, I have been getting seriously unnerved when I open my morning paper. The front page had no news . Instead the unmsmiling eyes of Narendra Modi stared at me from a full-page BJP ad, seeking votes on the basis of that smileless face.
It was a frightening prospect. If BJP wio and Modi became the Prime Minister i would have to see the unnerving face in government ads. If looking at that face for a few days can unnerve me imagine looking at it day in and day out for a five year period. No thanks no BJP despite a reasonable manifesto.
And the Congress guys cannot see beyond Gandhi and if they do they see Vadra and nothing else. So the banners TV and newspaper ads, is Rahul Rahul all the way. If I was unnerved by Modi not saying cheese I got irritated by Rahul doing it all the time. Smile you call it? A man ‘s true personality, I believe is revealed if you look closely at his smile. Here the smile is a misnomer for what appears to be a retarded grin. Do you think any sensible person would abet in handing over the country to a person whose mind is the reflection of such a smile oops sorry, grin?
So my choice fell on AAP. I saw no newspaper ads with a smiling Kejriwal/ Someone told me the party didn’t have the money for it. Well and good. It is better to vote for a penniless party rather than one with a Rs 400 crore ad budget. Wonder where do they get that sort of money. Obviously from big moneybags with promises of favors. After all votes come only once in five years and public memory is proverbially short. And that amnesia can be used again and again to con the voters but notes (currency that is) can be kept flowing from business honchos whenever the big parties want. All they have to do is to dance to their tunes, people be damned..
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Viswa by ha ving an allergy dkifferent from that of other leaders Kejriwal has proved that AAP is a party with a difference. The problem is %RaGa's smile mirrors his low intellect instead of hiding it. Modi shaving? I read somewhere that the CIA believing that the secret of Castro;s popularity lay in his beard lauhched a conspiracy to ensure that all his facial hair disappeared that didn't work. part of the NaMo charisma lies in the beard.He may lose votes if he removes it.May be the guy has rotten teeth that's why he speaks without opening his mouth and is unsmiling.

 

Puspavalli ma'am NOTA would be a great choice at least in Tamil Nadu since all the three main groupings, AIADMK front, DMK front and the BJP-led frpnmt are utter disappointments.

 

Kerman, I think NOTA is a very good option. In fact law should be amended to ensure that If Mr.,NOTA gets the maximum number of votes in a constituency repoll must be held there. That way voters will really be able to call the shots.

 

Quebec, I particularly liked the Daya one, These slogans are really absurd. But who is "haqdaar" here? May be Mr.NOTA.