India – Election and Electoral Bonds

November 23, 2022

India – Election and Electoral Bonds

Padmini Arhant

Election in a democracy is increasingly compromised via voting irregularities, tampering electronic voting machine (EVM), cash payments to voters to sway votes, incentives designed to attract voters only during election. Then there is horse trading upon losing majority with open bidding on opposition winning candidates to jump ship on the offer. The alternative is threat tactics to submit to political party bidding that are the norm.

The electoral bonds is the last straw on camel’s back directly undermining electoral process in the so-called democracy. The electoral bonds passed in Parliament with ruling and all opposition parties unanimously voting in favor in view of personal benefit jeopardize the concept of free and fair election.

The money flowing through electoral bonds from myriad sources have no checks and balances besides facilitating black money circulation with no limit. The election is also the means for money laundering through contributions to political campaign and candidacy.

The power game involves trade and tactics that are anything but democratic. The end justifying the means is never an issue for those seeking power at all costs regardless of dismal record and public grievance on government failure to address key issues related to economy like high inflation, unemployment, farmers plight, small business and informal sector employment and livelihoods displaced with specific corporate monopoly… are major concerns among population deprived of due economic growth and development.

Amidst burgeoning problems, the foreign power incursion and invasion of territories viz. China’s aggression along the Himalayan region and territorial annexation of land in Arunachal Pradesh with further encroachment in northeastern states like Sikkim, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Assam…exacerbate foreign intrusion.

The interesting irony is politics and politics’ recruited contingency comprising satirist having political relation and variety specializing in perversion and hooliganism targeting truth speaker and factual content with nuanced comments like – someone wearing casual home outfit competing with so-called Superstars convey explicit obsession and invasion of home and life of someone faraway across the ocean on other side of the planet while the same elements remaining clueless and even oblivious to a neighbor next door deploying troops surrounding the nation all around.

How about politics focus on real existential threats like China’s claim on national territories in the domestic front?

The diversion of taxpayers funded spyware and recruits’ perverse activities with 24/7 spying and eavesdropping on someone miles away and commenting on the individual clothing and lifestyle shifted to curtailing expansionist policy from across the border with China would be productive and preemptive.

Notwithstanding, the same politics turning a blind eye to neighbor China across the border engaged in bio-engineering of the deadly corona virus in Wuhan lab, Hubei Province that consumed more than million lives in homeland transforming India into mass graveyard in 2021 elaborate on politics’ misplaced spying strategy.

The government and political leadership neglecting fundamental national priorities is evident in repeat violations and uncivilized behavioral pattern at own citizens’ expense.

In conclusion, politics surrendered to political funding and financing not barring the enemy such as China investment in politics creating conflict of interest is an irrefutable fact. In quid pro quo New Delhi tender approval for Beijing controlled China based companies against Indian bidders in central government power projects in Uttar Pradesh in the height of the pandemic in 2020 summarize the state of affairs.

Importantly the truth sayer and presenter is targeted as the sworn enemy with persistent spying and relentless insinuations using film industry content in adherence to global master’s flawed paradigm.

The unethical vulgarity confirm backwaters politics with preference for crude lewd indulgence much to own collective peril.  

Padmini Arhant 

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