I am not familiar with that party but no wonder it ceased to exist in a diverse country that fancies mob rule like India.
See Sukhoi, dont you see the futility of having universal suffrage in a country like India now ?
I bet most of our illiterate countrymen could care less if even half of India gets nuked out by Islamist radicals in future. They will still continue to vote for their BJP, BSP, Congress, Communist and other such scumbag politicians who are morally corrupt by rule rather than exception. Simply because they dont even know what is happening in one part of the country.
Is it too much to ask to ONLY let those people who have the ability to absorb information and logically interpret a sequence of current events, than every john doe who is eligible to vote simply due to him being physically older than 18 yrs of age.
Most illiterate bums from the BIMARU states dont even know what happened in Hyderabad.. hell why go there, bet even those in AP wouldnt know what happened in Hyderabad. And they keep making wrong decisions that cost the lives of Indians.
& what is the alternative to universal adult suffrage??The moment one starts to think about such things,he or she starts heading towards authoritarian tendencies.If one wants to restrict voting to educated folks,then the next step would be to restrict it among religious or caste lines.This is the exact way Indian politicians think.
Indira Gandhi & her cronies were convinced that the democratic situation was too chaotic & India needed a course correction.The Emergency not only tarnished India’s image but ensured that very forces that Indira feared emerged-including the Social Justice parties of people like Lalu & Mulayam-while the Communists & the BJP all got strengthened.
About people voting-well you can only vote on the basis of what you hear in the manifesto & rallies.I have not heard one Indian politician openly talk about the need for serious fiscal reform & widening the tax net/reforming the Bureacrat/Police apparatus among other issues.So who do people vote for??Even reformers like Chandrababu Naidu use populist slogans to get around.
Democracy remains the least harmful option for India.It is maturing-one evidence for that is the the anti-incumbency factor which exists today.Nobody will vote constantly for you just because your surname is a Gandhi or if you promise a Temple or 2 in your manifesto.