A case for more electoral nuance | The Indian Express

A case for more electoral nuance | The Indian Express

Written by Annie Zaidi |Published: April 12, 2019 12:05:55 am

Annie Zaidi is a writer and poet

A case for more electoral nuance

It is time India tweaked its first-past-the-post system so that the people’s vote is not so easily hijacked.

Matters have deteriorated to the point that the BJP actually argued before the Supreme Court that the anti-defection law did not apply to the MLAs elected in Karnataka in 2018 because they hadn’t been sworn in yet.

As India goes towards her 17th general election, it is time we asked ourselves a hard question: What are we voting in? If we were being honest, the answer would be: We don’t know. We are probably voting in someone who represents himself or herself, rather than a set of values or a shared vision.