The Indian Supreme Court has recently upheld the constitutional validity of the SIR ( Special Intensive Revision ) done by the Election Commission of India.
Many people, e.g. lawyers Abhishek Singhvi, Sanjay Hegde, and Arun Agarwal, journalist Ashutosh, activist Yogendra Yadav, and others have strongly criticized the verdict, saying it legitimizes removal of the names of millions of valid voters from the voters list, to benefit the ruling BJP
But these people never question whether the alleged misuse of the SIR is relevant at all.
Many media channels showed views of politicians, legal experts, journalists etc about the Supreme Court verdict, but no one asked the most important question : even if the voters list is correctly prepared by the Election Commission, what difference will it make for the people of India ?
As is well known, the vast majority of Indians ( possibly upto 90% ) vote on the basis of caste and religion. They do not see the merits of the candidate, whether he is a good man or bad, educated or uneducated, criminal or not, and they do not consider the situation of unemployment, price rise, healthcare, malnutrition, etc, but only see the candidate’s caste or religion ( or the caste or religion his party claims to represent ).
So how does it matter whether the voters list has been correctly prepared or not ? Even if it has been correctly prepared, most voters will still vote on the basis of caste/religion.
Casteism and communalism are feudal forces, which must be destroyed if India is to progress, but parliamentary democracy further entrenches them ( because in India it largely runs on that basis). So it has to be replaced by another system under which the country rapidly industrializes and modernizes, and our people get a high standard of living and decent lives.
No amount of reforms in the electoral process in India will do our people any good, because voting will still largely be on caste/communal lines, and this will not solve our massive problems of poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, price rise, lack of proper healthcare and good education, etc.
In my interview by journalist Neelu Vyas before the Bihar state assembly elections last year about the allegations of vote chori ( vote theft ) I said that most Indians do not deserve the right to vote as they largely vote on caste/communal basis, so it is irrelevant whether there is vote chori or not. Democracy, and the right to vote, is meant for people with rational minds, not for people like Indians, most of whose minds are full of casteism and communalism.
I expressed the same view in this article
https://indicanews.com/is-democracy-suited-to-india
In the 2024 Indian parliamentary elections, almost half the MPs elected had criminal backgrounds. This shows that most of our voters do not care about this, but only see the candidate’s caste or religion ( or the caste or religion which the candidate’s party claims to represent ).
https://adrindia.org/content/record-46-of-newly-elected-lok-sabha-mps-facing-criminal-cases
The test of every political activity and political system is one, and only one : does it raise the standard of living of the people ? Does it give them better lives ?
From that standpoint, it is really irrelevant what changes are made in the voters electoral list, and whether the voters list is correctly prepared or not, and this whole excercise and discussion on it is really much ado about nothing. Even if the voters list is correctly prepared, at most it may result in a change in leadership and the coming to power of a different party, yet the vast majority of Indians will continue to lead miserable lives, with massive poverty, massive unemployment, skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, appalling level of child malnutrition ( see ‘Child Malnutrition in India, Global Hunger Index’ on Google ), almost total lack of proper healthcare and good education for the masses, etc. This is because our present political leaders, of all parties, do not genuinely care for the people’s welfare, but only seek power and pelf, for themselves or their families.
Hence all this discussion and criticism of the Supreme Court judgment on the SIR is a lot of hue and cry, hullabaloo, fuss and feathers, picayune, rumpus, hooh-ha, bluster, donnybrook, bagarre, and kerfuffle, over a matter of no consequence.
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