Well Rajdeep have you actually tried to find out the real reasons for low turnout :it is not apathy on part of voters but mismanaged electoral rolls and polling booth administration on the election day.Voters return from booths without casting their votes as they are astounded to find their names missing despite a voter id card issued by the commission.Poll agents help out trustewd vote banks on behalf their parties and there is no info provided by the commission itself.There is no intimation to the electorae about the delimitation changes and and changes in the electoral rolls and allocation of polling booths.It was missing in Gurgaon today when scores of senior citizens and the ladies alike left their cool homes to perform aduty only to be repulsed back by the heat and saga of missing names.Pappu to banege hi log

The Election Commission has so many powers but is not accountable to anyone. They spend so much of ex-chequers' money to ennumerate and prepare the electoral rolls but there are always complaints that genuine voters' names are missing from the final rolls. Unless the ennumerators and those who are responsible to supervise their work are made accountable and are punished for every mistake noticed in the electoral rolls, we keep hearing about complaints from genuine voters after every elections. In fact, the reluctance of most of the voters to go to the polling booth to vote is partly due to the uncertainity about seeing their name in the list. Inclusion of name in the voters' list must also be made simpler - proof of Passport, Pan-card or Driving Licence should be enough to register a voter. The onus of deleting the name of a voter from all other lists/constituencies must be on the Election Commission which have to sift and cross-check using the available computer software.

hi rajdeep you interview all the politicians well specially Amar singh on that he walked out of your program he cannot speak truth
i think again we are going to have hung parliament As actor Amir khan suggested that we should have another button if we feel he is not right candidate he should not become member of parliament
plus right to recall members of parliament who do not fulfill the aspirations of people not work for the people this time i hope goverment introduce lot of new bills, i will watch the debate politicians should behave well in tv rather than debate or become orator they should behave wellraher than interupting each other
i hope your analysis can i ask u one are u interested in politics
will u join any paty
(Vijay)

dear rajdeep,

The exit poll results of Andhra Pradesh which are being aired in your channels are completely wrong. The Ground reality is that Congress is going to lose this elections at any cost. Let me tell you if you take example of my own. I have friends around 30, when asked them about their Vote except 1 or 2 nobody is ready to vote for Congress. I will make sure that congress loses the battle. Persons who are educated and have common sence will not vote for congress. I think EXIT Polls are Biased and influenced by congress. None of the exit polls are fevouring NDA or other regional parties like TDP, PRP etc.

1. In Parliament, attendance should be taken for MPs. Those don't have 80% should be expelled from the Parliament with immediate effect. This attendance should be validated every year. If they not feeling well to attend the session due to medical reason, then why they contesting in polls

2. All MPs should pass IPSc ( Indian Political Science) Exam. This should be controlled by EC. This is not make the MPs to speak English fluently, but to make them think sensibly.

3. Those MPs with criminal Back ground should be barred from contesting. During the political period, these politicians are joining with local Gundas for political mileage.

4. People stood understand politicians & political parties by their behavior. When "Slumdog Millionaire" won the Oscar award, any of these parties came to congratulate them. But during the polls, they need their song. As well where were these actors for past five years? Now SRK, Salman, Preity etc coming to campaign. Will they responsible for poor performance of government?

5. People like Varun Gandhi should be considers as best comedian in the world. He said, he will cut the fingers of Musilms, who raise against Hindus. Will he come every time to cut the fingers? Even Hindus should understand that these will make too, insecure in their region. This will make communal clash as well make Hindus along with Musilms insecure in country like India.

6. No top leaders in India will be killed in any cost because they are even more dangerous than Underworld Dons.

I am ready for debate on all these with anyone.

Hi,

Does any honest person say that elections in So-called largest democratic country is free & fair? On the top, it may look, but ground realty is totally opposite. Those who vote are party cadres (incl.bogus votes)(majority). Very thin percentage turnout only if they are touched by emotions. Hence larger alliance wins ( through Money& muscle power). This is not a true election in a democratic country. We have will ( changes) where is the way?????

Suggestion for a debate like program...

Having Prime ministerial debates (similar to Presidential ones in USA) has always been thought of in India, but they have never happened. Maybe becaz there are so many prime ministerial candidates.

However can your channel have a debate of a different kind. Let there be a 30 min per party session. In the first 15 mins the prime ministerial candidate of the party talks openly on the basis on some predefine segments like economy, defence, foreign relations etc. as to what he/she will do as a prime minister in these areas. And for the next 15 mins a group of respectable people from society or a respectable anchor questions them further objectively on related areas. There are no debates, however the structure of the sessions ensures all aspects are covered.

This in my view might help the people better understand the parties and there plans.

Instead of trying to show there are no party agendas, your channel can help force parties to bring out the same clearly.

As the election are on i will love if u organise a debate on your channel as WhetherIndia is a democratic country or not? As per my view we are democratic but we do not have democratic system which allows us to elects right leaders.This is because consider a constituency where total voters are 100. Since india is very diverse country , u may find roughly 40 hindu,20 muslim ,10 dalit & rest of other religion. What this politician do. One of them start shouting about mandir, other start shouting of masjid. Some about dalit. Result of these is , some section of hindu,muslim ,dalit get carried away & votes for such politicians respectively. Say 20 out 40 hindu will go to hindu politician, 10 out of muslis will vote muslim etc. Then using the politics of splitting votes of hindu or muslim or dalit one of politician manages to get 15 to 20 votes. Unfornuately out of 100 , only 50 to 60 ppl votes. Because of this art of division,winner of parliament seat is actully a person backed by only 15 to 20 ppl out of 100. This is not at all a democracy. A winner should have 51% of total casted votes. To gain a control over a company one uses this formula, then why not for parliament seat. This will force politician to take everybody with them. Nobody will dare to speak about only mandir or masjid & they will speak about development only because that is common across all reliion & caste.
Secondly, ppl should have right to refuse,if we feel all members contesting election are not capable we should have right to say no to all. If more than 50% out of casted votes are refusal then election should be taken one more time.
Not everybody is mahamta, politician also in politic as their profession. So let us create a robust system in which any politician is forced to work as per ppl wish. Now they do not care abt ppl because they have master the art of contesting election. That art is DIVIDE & RULE (like britishers).
Exp. on election will increase but if we get right leaders that is okay.

like every person who is a bit tilted towards hinduism are considered to be non secularists and the persons who talk about other religions and giving reservations for them only for their vote bank politics are considered to be the true secularists.. very bad on part of u people..if u people are really secularists dont create a gap between the people by giving a particular sect the reservations which itself tells tht these people are minorities and they are different frm others...

I did see the billion Votes program on CNN-IBN , it was definately a bold move trying to gauge the mood of this nation , a herculean task . I guess these are the first trends and would probably change a bit , the course of polling date . I feel you are pretty close to reality . I feel this will be a manmohan Vs Advani election , any comparision between these two , Manmohan is miles ahead of Advani who still blabbers Ram temple @ ayodhya !!!!!. See the status of his party in the hindi heartland , they have decimated virtually and does not even have a partner for elections !!!!.

I do have good insights into Karnataka polity , let me know if you need any insights apart from one you already have !!!

Murthy