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Quoting from an Indian Express article by Shombit
CM Championship Trophy: Panchayat election was the league matches, Parliament election the quarter finals, municipal election the semi-finals, and the final assembly election for the CM Championship Trophy started 18 April to conclude on 10 May. The winner will be declared on 13 May 2011. As part of this election game we’ve witnessed serious shenanigans, political travesty, hatred and meaningless murder, unsportsmanlike rivalry and mudslinging that bordered on drollery. Let me share with you the nuances I could follow due to my Bengali origin.
We’re fortunate the idiot box reveals such juicy, blow-by-blow election debates among other entertainment. Exceptional in Bengal’s election matches is unexpected stories that keep emerging from the two leading parties. Other parties have added salt and pepper from time to time to increase or diffuse the taste. Every cricket match in a series is never thrilling, but in this election, each episode has been rousing, except the violence. I’m sure the public enjoyed them all. Actually the only similarity with World Cup Cricket is the suspense of who will win.
Peculiar election model: Entrusted with free polling and fair elections, the Election Commission undoubtedly made serious security arrangements to achieve voter turnout from an electorate of 5,60,91,973 in West Bengal’s 88752 sq km area for 294 seats. It’s perfectly understandable that voting was staggered into 6 phases to avoid turbulence. But aren’t rules like stoppage of election activity 48 hours prior to polling a little archaic when electronic and cyber media command the airwaves today? In compliance, on-ground electioneering stopped at voting locations. But where’s the question of not influencing voters when TV telecast of party speeches, debates and advertisements continued, even as voters were standing in queue? In fact after votes were cast in a phase, different political parties further stimulated the next phase electorate by releasing poll results of hypothetical numbers of seats they are about to win. Such influencing factors do not help standardize electioneering procedures.
If 6 phases are inevitable and the rule to be abided, shouldn’t campaigning have stopped 48 hours before the first phase until the sixth phase in all media? But election is great business, low cost drama production vis-à-vis the exorbitant cost of producing TV serials. It’s well established that the more you spend to advertise any brand, the better its penetration and product purchase, at least for a trial. A democratic practice in Western countries is equal time on TV and radio for all political parties 3 weeks prior to elections. Doordarshan does that too, but how many watch DD? There’s no balance in Indian TV channels that are unabashedly aligned to their favourite political parties. Cyber media hasn’t entered election rule books yet possibly because it’s not involuntary viewing, people choose to go there.
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