Non-serious candidates
Non-serious candidates
There isn't much going on in TN at the moment. The next round of tamasha would begin only after the respective camps have finalised the seat for their alliance partners. There would be lot of grumble, mumble & last minute bargaining. Once the dust settles on that one, final battlelines would be drawn. It is during this phase we would get to know who would be contesting from where.
One of the good things to have happened to our democratic setup in the last decade apart from the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) is that the way the Election Commission got rid off the non-serious candidates. If the nomination fee hadn't been raised to its present levels (Rs 10,000 for Assembly Constituency & Rs 25,000 for Parliamentary Constituency if I am not wrong), even this writer would have tried her luck at the hustings. It would be worth remembering that about 1035 candidates - most of them farmers contested from Modakurichi assembly constituency in Tamilnadu in 1996 general election in protest against some cause. That many candidates in the fray is a record of sorts as nomination fee at that time was Rs 250. Ballot paper had to be in the form of a 80 page booklet for that election. Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan of DMK, who is now a Union Minister got elected from Modakurichi at that time.
There isn't much going on in TN at the moment. The next round of tamasha would begin only after the respective camps have finalised the seat for their alliance partners. There would be lot of grumble, mumble & last minute bargaining. Once the dust settles on that one, final battlelines would be drawn. It is during this phase we would get to know who would be contesting from where.
One of the good things to have happened to our democratic setup in the last decade apart from the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) is that the way the Election Commission got rid off the non-serious candidates. If the nomination fee hadn't been raised to its present levels (Rs 10,000 for Assembly Constituency & Rs 25,000 for Parliamentary Constituency if I am not wrong), even this writer would have tried her luck at the hustings. It would be worth remembering that about 1035 candidates - most of them farmers contested from Modakurichi assembly constituency in Tamilnadu in 1996 general election in protest against some cause. That many candidates in the fray is a record of sorts as nomination fee at that time was Rs 250. Ballot paper had to be in the form of a 80 page booklet for that election. Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan of DMK, who is now a Union Minister got elected from Modakurichi at that time.
posted by Indian Voter at 5:18:00 PM
3 Comments:
i guess one of the reason for the non-serious candidates used to be the concessional price newsprint which was given to candidates. not sure whether the practise is still in vogue.
Yes sir.. you are right. That practice is still being followed, I guess.
sdf
Post a Comment
<< Home