JAAGO VOTERS

This is a story of truth behind Indian mind set and Indian political scenario during the election campaign of 2009 narrated by a friend Vinay Talluri.

Situation at a polling booth

Hi all I just want to share how was the situation in a polling booth in our locality(I reside near ECIL Xroad/Nredmet X road secunderabad).My uncle(peddananna) is an active member(kaaryakartha,treasurer once) in ABCD party since decades,so in this elections the person who got MLA ticket from that party is very close friend of my uncle.On the day of election generally a person from every party sits in the polling booth in the name of polling agent. The actual intention behind this polling agent concept is when a member of everyparty sits there they will check whether the actual person in the list is voting or any other person is voting on his name(donga votes,rigging) etc. Why my uncle asked me to be as an agent is the members of the party asked huge amounts to sit as a polling agent and the contestant is a good person and he donot have much amount and don't like to distribute money,liquor for votes etc.He spent 2 lakhs totallyfor campaigning(think its the lowest according to my knowledge).
Coming to the scenario ,members from TDP,congress,PRP,BJP are in the booth.The most worst thing is those who are coming as polling agents are not coming as they got attracted towards the partie's ideologies, but they give us some amount as we are sitting here. They will be giving us a liquor party the next day. I would like to quote some dialogues of those people here.

A person asked me how much are they paying you?
Me:I said I have come as a volunteer not for money.
He:anna ilaa aithe neekemi vastadi anna?maree antha sincere ga
unda kooDadu.(Brother what will you get from this ? you shouldn't be that sincere)

Another person(we call him reliever)of congress came and asked the congress agent in our room whether he needs any food?
the person(agent) said that its thursday and I donot eat anything. Later the same person is telling that today however its holiday and moreover its thursday tomorrow let's all have a grand liquor party with remaining amount they have given us for campaigning.

After completing our lunch the agent of congress party started saying that in the last moment(last 45 to 30 min of polling) we can go for rigging.I was just stunned to listen to this When the time has come he and another person from PRP started requesting the presiding officers that want to do rigging atleast five or ten votes.
At the beginning the officer didnot accept it but later he also accepted.
Except one lady officer and me everyone is ready for rigging/false votes.They all have come to an understanding and started forcing us, at the beginning the lady officer didnot accept it but because of the force from other officers she too accepted reluctantly. She said if anyone(polling agent of other party) has any objection you cannot do this .So I thought that it is the best chance to make
use of ,if I donot hesitate now, later though I feel that that day I could/should have gone against them there will be no use. So I have objected to that gathering all the courage in me.Finally What I want to say is people should come from every political party volunterily to avoid rigging,they have to come based on the ground that they like the principles of the party but not for this money ,liquor etc hope this situation will change atleast in the coming years. There were no agents for parties like CPI,CPM,LSP. The reason might be these people donot have money
and are against to these things I hope.

They said what happens if they give some false votes?
I started shouting at them.Ok lets all do rigging.(sarE manamantha ilaagE rigging chEddam,desam naasanam aipothunna/aipoina parvaledu,dabbulu kosam evaDo pOsE oka peg liquor kosam dEsa bhavishyathuni naasanam chEddam)inka desam eppatiki baagu padakapoina parvaledu mana cheap desires satisfy aithE chaalu ani annaanu)The lady asked me to calm down and said that she will be on my side and we together didnot allow it After that I was abit afraid that whether anyone would beat me after
coming out but luckily it didnot happen.I was really happy for my reaction.


Jaihind.

I welcome all your opinions on this issue but please donot start fighting with thers points.And please stop posting replies like kudos ,great etc because the reason I started this thread is not for applause but want to reveal what is appening when people with registered numbers in the voters list are not coming forward to vote, their votes are being misused.

Thankyou.