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Well, finally the monster of election -as I had called it in my last post- has gone off from our area for the time being. It has gone to deep sleep for sometime like Kumbhkarn and will awake when the Gram Panchayat elections do commence. This election was a clean sweeper. The steam roller of BJP has almost crushed Congress out of it. Anyway, today I am here not to talk of all that stuff. I want to draw your attention towards one trivial thing all of us have used but not noticed or even not brought to notice of people concerned for that matter. We have been put to election duties every time. This was my 8th election duty. And; since my first acquaintance with this national duty, I have observed it; so this time, I am putting it for others to view. Every time, when we are deployed on duty, I have seen that Election Commission provides us with a tobacco tin to use it as a container to hold the indelible ink bottle on sand filled in the tin. Now I wonder how come the EC be so careless abou...

We live in a country which is obsessed with the monster called election. Almost every year, we are thrown into the atmosphere of 'Lubhavani' election. One or the other election comes by and the gangs of bastardly robbers become active to seduce people to turn as active voters even though they are unable to provide them with water. Election is good for the health of democracy but now I feel it is better for the health of politicians. Elections are expensive and the outcome of it is even more expensive as the elected members mostly indulge themselves in making money by hook or crook without caring for national interest. In the glittering lights of Navratri, and over night running garbas, we are thrown once again into dirt of election. 'Sthanik swaraj' election is on the trot and imminent. The very unknown and less visible faces of politicians have automatically turned visible and more importantly caring. They think and reason for the betterment of people (secretly theirs...