Quote:
Originally Posted by janab-e-ali
So your brilliant point is that the people of Kashmir don't like their "voices" being heard? Yes, clearly that's the best explanation for the defeat of a not particularly popular politician, in a state with a legendary history of electoral fraud.
Now what does he say about the elections .....
|
Of course people of Kashmir want their voice to be heard, like rest of India. And they do so by electing people who they feel will carry this voice to the parliament.
What it shows that people in his constituence realized that Sajjad had his own agenda to carry to parliament and perhaps he was not in sync with his people !!!!!!
Quote:
Originally Posted by janab-e-ali
A lot of cousins indeed...if you actually bother looking at the detailed results for the local assembly elections, you'll see that few candidates won by anything approaching a majority mandate because the votes were so divided between 517 local "independent" candidates, and 43 "political parties." Throw in some draconian curfews and some forced voting out in the villages, plus some aggressive PR effort on the part of the GOI to show that local elections have nothing to do with the Kashmiri independence movement and the final settlement of the state's status (which, in typical two-faced Indian fashion, the GOI immediately reneged on as it declared the turnout a rejection of Kashmiri nationalism)...and you get 51% turnout.
|
Specifically talking about Sajjad's constituence .... he got 65,000 votes and there were 400,000 voters cast in this constituency.... Sajjad finsihed third ...... There were a total of 13 candidates for his constituency !!!!!! ..... heard he has gone into seclusion after his defeat and is planning to give up politics completely !!!!!!!