tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30819742.post117979607955495160..comments2024-03-27T13:58:06.458+05:30Comments on Suvro Chatterjee bemused: Poll updateSuvro Chatterjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01027202980259279420noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30819742.post-89905596263041360332011-05-14T07:33:52.150+05:302011-05-14T07:33:52.150+05:30Historic day for West Bengal. I never thought this...Historic day for West Bengal. I never thought this could happen in my lifetime.Anand Tiwarinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30819742.post-30644409362355662252011-05-07T14:43:07.247+05:302011-05-07T14:43:07.247+05:30I made my debut as a 'voter' in Indian dem...I made my debut as a 'voter' in Indian democracy today ! The polling station i went to was flooded with people who believed that even 'one vote matters' . The queues were ridiculously long but not a single person left the booth before casting the vote. Some years back,as some of my elders tell me, this was not what one usually saw at a typical polling booth of Bengal . Some people used to leave the polling booths in disgust,the long queues and summer heat making it impossible for them to sustain their interest in casting their votes .And then the inevitable - the CPI(M) cadres would come and produce fake voting cards to cast false votes and the Left would get sweeping victories in every general election in our state . This time the situation is different - people stood in long queues for hours and the strict security personnel made sure that the party agents were not able to cause trouble ! That is really heartening to see in a country where laws are disregarded with ease and malpractices in public procedures prevail in many places !<br /> Regarding the last paragraph in the post , i really cannot say much ! After seeing the kind of things that my friends do on facebook , it is really not clear to me how many youths are really 'interested' in knowing about the electoral system in our democracy or have enough faith in it !Debotoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09612292375366632146noreply@blogger.com