Those who are serious about the future of democracy in India might do well to reconsider their emotional over-investment in a rigged electoral system and return to reckoning with a politics of popular movements that seek to disarm power, not through the fakery of elections, but through sustained peaceful mass movements. This doesn’t necessarily mean you abandon elections and electoral politics. It means you see participation in elections as just one aspect of the vocabulary of a new politics. - Shuddhabrata  Sengupta..  for full text of post

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(159) "Vote Machines Stolen In UP, Videos Show": Akhilesh Yadav's Shocker  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTjtgyEIIPM Mar 8, 2022

The Samajwadi Party, the biggest challenger to the BJP in the recently held assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, has alleged that Electronic Voting machines were being taken away from the counting centres in Varanasi. The machines, kept in a truck, were allegedly being taken out just two days before counting of votes.

Akhilesh Yadav का आरोप, Varanasi में EVM एक जगह से दूसरी जगह ले जाई गईं | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpMq45kZwN0 Mar 8, 2022

अखिलेश यादव (Akhilesh Yadav) ने आरोप लगाया है कि वाराणसी (Varanasi) में ईवीएम को एक जगह से दूसरी जगह ले जाया गया. इसकी कोई सूचना उम्मीदवारों को नहीं दी गई. गाड़ी की सुरक्षा व्यवस्था नहीं थी. सपा कार्यकर्ताओं ने गाड़ी में ईवीएम को पकड़ा है.

UP Election : वाराणसी में पकड़ी गई EVM तो भड़के OP Rajbhar, इस अधिकारी को दे डाली चेतावनी  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxXMxvsRDq4 Mar 8, 2022

भारत समाचार यूपी का सर्वश्रेष्ठ हिंदी न्‍यूज चैनल है। भारत समाचार न्‍यूज चैनल राजनीति, मनोरंजन, बॉलीवुड, व्यापार और खेल में नवीनतम समाचारों को शामिल करता है।

Varanasi Video Has Trucks 'Stealing' Voting Machines: Akhilesh Yadav  https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/48-hours-before-counting-akhilesh-yadavs-voting-machine-charge-in-up-2811008  

As videos of some EVMs in the truck are being circulated on social media, the District Magistrate of Varanasi said the EVMs were not the ones used for voting and are just being used for "hands-on training".

Accusing "some political parties" of "spreading rumours", District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said the EVMs used in the elections "are all sealed in the strong room in the possession of CRPF and there is CCTV surveillance which is being watched by people of all political parties". The EVMs, he added, were going to a local college from the storage area at the Mandi counting centre.  

The counting of votes for the mammoth seven-phase elections in Uttra Pradesh will take place on Thursday
All IndiaReported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Anindita SanyalUpdated: March 08, 2022

The Live Tv का Exit Poll, अखिलेश यादव बनेंगे मुख्यमंत्री 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkkQ2TfWRDI

 UP Election Result : Rakesh Tikait ने बताया क्यों उनकी अपील के बाद भी जीत रही BJP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8aMC2k-M9I 
Mar 10, 2022 .  Voting and Andolan as methods of change need to be seperated, says Tikait. Farmers will still have faith in Andolan process, even though the way of garnering votes goes on a parallel track.   Andolan will continue, says tikait as the farmers issues are still pending.

while the Tikait response that the andolan track is distinct from the electoral track..may get those of us in the periphery of governance politics may get us some breath/breadth Those of us who work for system change need to re-examine how distant we are from our goals. We have not not been able to consolidate even the simple gains of democracy. workers and toiling peoples struggles, the women's and gender movement, the peace movement, the environment movements. While there were many in farmers movement who spoke of systemic issues, of organiic, decentralised production and marketing, there wasnt a groundswell of anger to the corporatisation and centralisation/monopolisation of agriculture. The peace movement could not make a dent into the polarisation on communal lines - perhaps the people votes on religious rather than caste lines. Perhaps the perception was that people has to choose btween one strong-man v/s the other , as they have done in Lakhimpur! Eithe way it is not only the Congress that has to introspect. Even the entire middle ground, and new progressive, and alternatives , or even the "Nirman" forces failed along with the "sangharsh". They weren't directly in the fight, but their ideas, values, analysis took a beating.. or are we going to say "pehle aap"?.. 

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