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Run-up to voting day

We have a political party in power that is implementing its ideology and agenda of dividing our nation and our society on the basis of faith

Whoever wins, I hope there is a coalition government at the Centre. There is no evidence to show that strongman leadership is any good for us or for any other country. Photo: BS
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Whoever wins, I hope there is a coalition government at the Centre. There is no evidence to show that strongman leadership is any good for us or for any other country. Photo: BS

Aakar Patel
Voting day will soon be upon us. I have been reflecting on it and thought I should share a few things that occur on the subject.

The first thing is that voting has become easy for us Indians. I have zero engagement with the state before the date of voting. I go online to see whether the Election Commission still has me registered, and I take down the sequence number that has been allotted to me. I handwrite my own chit, instead of stopping outside the voting area to take it from one of the party desks. And I step straight