sonia gandhi and l.k.advani. and many more who never asked any questions or voiced their constituents' concerns in the lok sabha.
and many of those mps would be re-elected this summer. why?
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4 comments:
Why indeed. A question that should worry all of us. As voters we've done our share, too, to perpetuate this mess, haven't we?
Delurking to say - thought-provoking blog. Thanks much for the incisive views.
ss,
welcome :)
kuffir: wish you would do a post about what our options really are, as voters, in this time before the elections. I see rallies, posters, convoys of cars but no one has come to canvas. I don't know who the candidates are, what their record is, what their position is on anything.
What if none of them are satisfactory (which is most likely)? What can I do?
This is a serious question.
Maybe BB should also have a tab only for following elections.
sb,
you're prescient or something :)i'd been thinking about a broadly similar post for some time- not going into specifics a lot, but outlining, in my very subjective view, those issues on which i feel there should be greater focus. will do it as soon as i am done with some unfinished drafts. thanks for the suggestion.
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