Not Aadhaar card, PAN card or Ration card will prove Indian citizenship;http://dhunt.in/11aIF6 Not Aadhaar card, PAN card or Ration card will prove Indian citizenship; only these documents will, and they are: Look at the list above and consider hiw likely that an ordinary citizen living somewhere in the villages of India would possess even oneContinue reading “For God’s sake , please make up your mind, Your Majesty, the GoI !”
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With the 11-Year “Narendra Modi Report Card” of Anand Ranganathan, I concur and say, “This was India’s Finest Hour”!
The Modi Era: 2014-2025 Magnificent achievements indeed ! This past 11 year period will certainly have to be reckoned by historians of the future as India’s “finest hour” heralding a golden era in the life of the nation. Anand Ranganathan’s one glaring omission of India’s achievements in the last 11 years is the great stridesContinue reading “With the 11-Year “Narendra Modi Report Card” of Anand Ranganathan, I concur and say, “This was India’s Finest Hour”!”
One dozen random reasons why I fully support the ONOP Bill
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/one-election-bill-tabled-in-house-may-be-sent-to-jpc-101734460270454.html Here are a dozen random reasons which convince me , a very ordinary, unknown citizen of India, why I must express my full support the ONOP Bill being tabled in the Parliament by the Government : 1. Holding state assembly and parliament elections simultaneously will bring about much greater political stability throughout the nationContinue reading “One dozen random reasons why I fully support the ONOP Bill”
“INDIAN POLITICAL PARTIES: A huge governance challenge”, writes former CEC T.S.Krishnamurthy
Dear Sri TSK Sir, Thank you for sharing your article (scroll down to the end below) with me. It is a very well written, sober and sobering commentary on the ills of our country’s electoral system . The solutions to many of the problems highlighted by you lie not in the hands of the ECIContinue reading ““INDIAN POLITICAL PARTIES: A huge governance challenge”, writes former CEC T.S.Krishnamurthy”
Make the Indian Voter pay for his apathy
It is election season now and for me it is quite fascinating to do some laid-back voting analysis while waiting for D-DAY on June 4th. You may call it idling time but it’s still worth it because it gives me a slightly better understanding of our voting system. Going back to the subject of glaring anomalies ofContinue reading “Make the Indian Voter pay for his apathy”
“A bold agenda for cleansing the Indian Electoral stables”: Will the new Central Government 2024-2029 have the courage to see it through?
In response to my blogpost of yesterday here at this link : https://mksudarshans.blog/2024/05/26/is-indian-electoral-system-designed-to-put-into-power-only-minority-governments/ , retired Judge of the Madras High Court, Justice T.C.A. Rangarajan ( https://tshc.gov.in/retjudges/tncrj.html) sent me an email proposing what I consider is a truly wholesome and innovative although radical and challenging agenda for large-scale Reform of India’s voting system. To read JudgeContinue reading ““A bold agenda for cleansing the Indian Electoral stables”: Will the new Central Government 2024-2029 have the courage to see it through?”
A social-contract reeking of conflict of interest and moral hazard: Electoral Bond Scheme
“The Hindu” today 21 Feb 2024 : DATA POINT At least the Data analysis above — if not the noisy news and editorial commentaries in the media that have only confused and confounded me — confirms now my own suspicions voiced in my previous blogposts that I posted here over the last few days, everContinue reading “A social-contract reeking of conflict of interest and moral hazard: Electoral Bond Scheme”
Was PM Narendra Modi right in invoking the Sudama and Krishna metaphor ?
I do not agree with Ritesh Sharma’s view below ⬇️ I think what PM Modi really meant was that ordinary people who were able to make anonymously small contributions to political parties in India under the Electoral Bond Scheme EBS have now lost that means of exercising even a modicum of popular influence on politicalContinue reading “Was PM Narendra Modi right in invoking the Sudama and Krishna metaphor ?”
“sab chaltha hai yaar!… kuch nahi kar saktha koi bhi … Supreme Court ya Khudha..!
For big corporates and big business political donations are part of their business strategy… Donations to this or that party constitutes an investment with an expected return within a given time frame. But we all know for a fact that there are millions of other small business men, traders, shopkeepers and vendors of goods andContinue reading ““sab chaltha hai yaar!… kuch nahi kar saktha koi bhi … Supreme Court ya Khudha..! “
Electoral Bond Scheme verdict: Conspiracy of the Powerful to pull wool over our eyes?
Matching buyers of electoral bonds with recipients could be tricky, say activists – https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/matching-buyers-of-electoral-bonds-with-recipients-could-be-tricky-say-activists/article67850160.ece The news today say that it’s going to be technically tricky to reveal exactly “who gave how much to which party” under the Electoral Bond Scheme which yesterday the Supreme Court of India declared as illegal and unconstitutional. In other words,Continue reading “Electoral Bond Scheme verdict: Conspiracy of the Powerful to pull wool over our eyes?”