Tuesday, January 10, 2012

UP election 2012: Election commission’s move to curtail the Mayavati, Kanshiram’s statues from multiple parks along with the draping of UP’s state animal elephant.

Few days back I hear a surprised dictation from Election commission of India asking local government and Nagarpalika of Uttar Pradesh to curtain all the statues of BSP leader Shri Mayavati ji and Shri Kanshiram ji and their beloved party symbol elephant. In India election commission considered to be an institution which should be known for its clear image, integrity and protector of democracy and its processes. Over the period of few years election commission is doing good work and responsible for good achievements like introduction of voting machines, awareness of people about voting process and their rights and phased polls to have clean and fair election process in each state. They tried many options but still long way to go in terms of having clean elections with increased voting percentage in all the states, also huge efforts are required to reform electoral processes so that clean candidates can only take their nominations ahead who are representing different political parties.


This time when election commission ordered to drap the Mayavati ji’s statues and elephants, it looks funny and absurd, and as election commissioner stated that the orders are given because elephant is his parties symbol and Mayavati’s statues might influence people of Uttar Pradesh. The decision is absurd and influenced. May be by other political parties like Congress or SP or some other party are having influence over election commission and because of it a sudden announcement has appear. It might be very funny to say something like what will happen if actual elephants will roam around the city or people moving on bicycle (it is party symbol of Samajvadi party) or natural Lotus in any of the pond around the state or above all how election commission will react to all people with hands, will they ban people from showing their hands.

I would like to ask election commission to justify their action in a way which sounds logical, clear and transparent, which is not the case here in case of UP election. Also I would like to request people and activists to come together and put some big questions for election commission’s integrity and I would like to ask other political parties to question election commission because it is not only about opposing the ruling government in Uttar Pradesh but to rise above politics and question election commission’s this move which might hurt or impact other parties campaign movement in future.

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