It is a pretty much a L take. People now can't claim that they are underrepresented or unrepresented. The rural voter can't say that nobody listens to my concern as his whole village is voting. The student can't say nobody gives a sh*t about my education because he is now a viable voting bloc. Voting is a right and it should be compulsory. I understand where you are coming from but it keeps extremist movements away.
I get your point but what if there is no party or candidate who will consider their interests in policy making. Then they are forced to choose between multiple harmful options, it may be like choosing the less deadly poison. So this matter can be debated much more imo. Compulsory voting needs to bring along with it responsible candidates and parties who work for the interests of all groups.
I understand but at least in the 'West' countries which have compulsory voting have many parties which represents interests of different groups. For e.g. Australia and Luxembourg.
I don't know about Australia but here 1st time offenders are fined lightly while repeated offenders are fined heavily. Exceptions are there for disabled and other types of physically depressed groups. And if your are over 75 and a citizen you are not required to vote unless you register yourself. And if you are 18 or above, registration for voting is compulsory.
Yes, it matters. Also, middle class is around 30% in India. If they vote collectively, that's a lot of power. This "my vote doesn't matter" attitude has a negative effect on our democracy.
But whom one is going to vote for is not affected besides getting to know the actual majority opinion
“The government policies don't always to have caste specific ” Welcome to Bihar, where politics run upon pure caste basis. It's bhura baal saaf Karo here. In Karnataka you have lingayats, I don't wanna mention the situation of Tamil Brahmins. Opposition is ready to have caste census. Manipur is burning due to this sc/St issue. You need to sharpen your knowledge about Indian politics.
Regarding middle class, if you don't pay income tax you are not a middle class. Just because you call yourself middle class won't make you one. So my figure is actually very close to reality. 33% middle class lol. If you think you earn 50,000 will make you middle class than I'm sorry. It won't.
30% means 43.2(144 crores' 30%) crores people. Government working on 2011 census provides food to 80 crore PPL. If you add 43.2+80 crores it makes 123.2 crores but we have only 121 crores. The data is flawed.
Note down government policies works on census and financial management depends on current situation. Actual middle class is near 7.4 crores. I hope this helps.
If you can't see why every party is giving freebies than it's bad yaar.
And everywhere in world PPL vote in blocks not individually. The moment minorities (upper caste hindus mainly Brahmin, tax paying middle class, etc etc) will start voting like others, hate politics against them will rise.
Opposition is doing obc, sc/st vs general + muslims bjp is doing hindus + pashmanda vs Ashraf.
But the census data is from 2011. Surely the number of middle class people has risen drastically. I'll admit I didn't quite understand what you said about financial management tbh. I do see why parties give freebies. Everyone has a right to not be discriminated against, so one should not have to worry about hate politics. (I am not saying it doesn't exist, I am saying it shouldn't exist)
All this got me wondering how you define middle class, and maybe supplement that with why you think your categorisation is superior.
I do wanna counter your argument but tbh I'm tired of the same issue, voting for either of the sides is basically braindead at this point. As I said, work hard to get out of the deadlock, I can only imagine it being much worse in Bihar though. Or if you think you can fix it maybe Padhai likhai Karo ias vaias Bano aur desh badlo, Bihar mein to vaise bhi log bhot mehnati hote hain.
Nobody accomplished anything ever by sitting on their arse. By voting atleast you can express your disapproval, even if you vote NoTA.
My categorisation isn't superior. It's real. If you pay direct tax to government you are middle class. Because poors ain't supposed to pay it.
Nobody is brain-dead. Agenda of every party is clear. I.N.D.I. alliance wants to throw away our nuclear weapons. If you think it's same than you're definitely insane. Also, Bihar in many things is better. Like I have freedom to spit on roads 🤣. But on a serious note, we can cuss any leader and we won't be jailed.
I don't have any interest to fix it. I just want somethings to be fixed. I can not fix millions of ppl.
By voting nota, it will be shown like 100% voters voted so India is happy democracy. But if we boycott elections it will have serious impact as PPL can say that public is not happy.