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” Getting Badal to Varanasi…….” speaks volumes of NaMo’s dual face.
I had no doubt at all that he will go to any extent to win 2019 polls
by hook or crook . Ultimately, he succeeded in manipulating and
hijacking this poll somehow or the other in the disguise of a fine
and indispensable leader !
The mandate is being deemed spectacular in the circles but mandate
at the sametime is also reflecting scars of mistrust and suspicion !
The protests pertaining to the bungling in the EVMs and partisan role
of the Election Commission of India offer a lot of impetus to credibility
deficit theories enveloping the polls raising fingers at the free, fair, fearless
and transparent conduct of polls !
Though NaMo is in the hot seat once again but masses’ coming to streets and
roads demanding conducting of polls through ballot papers instead of EVMs
doubting the veracity of polls is quite sensitive and grave a development !
Prof PK Sharma,Freelance Journalist,Barnala (Punjab)
” Getting Badal to Varanasi…….” speaks volumes of NaMo’s dual face.
I had no doubt at all that he will go to any extent to win 2019 polls
by hook or crook . Ultimately, he succeeded in manipulating and
hijacking this poll somehow or the other in the disguise of a fine
and indispensable leader !
The mandate is being deemed spectacular in the circles but mandate
at the sametime is also reflecting scars of mistrust and suspicion !
The protests pertaining to the bungling in the EVMs and partisan role
of the Election Commission of India offer a lot of impetus to credibility
deficit theories enveloping the polls raising fingers at the free, fair, fearless
and transparent conduct of polls !
Though NaMo is in the hot seat once again but masses’ coming to streets and
roads demanding conducting of polls through ballot papers instead of EVMs
doubting the veracity of polls is quite sensitive and grave a development !
Prof PK Sharma, Freelance Journalist
Pom Anm Nest, Barnala (Punjab)