How we elect

After writing a post on status about statistical analysis based on Bihar poll data.

I found it was very superficial and more thoughts overwhelmed mind. presenting them here.

First data taken was state-wider % vote share of two different types of poll. [if we truly know what comes under state government and under central government.] so first thought was to compare previous state election. 2010 data with 2015 data, still tells many thing. on looking to it, one finds strange things. The party which has lost election is been found gaining %vote share state wise. While winning one has lost.

Still all data is deceptive in appearance, more methodical study is required. for which complete statistical report is required. like the one http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/Statisti... of 2010 election report. than one can play around with number.

Second important fact came out during yesterday’s post was about democracy as government system. which brought a question on how we elect our representative? what are biggest threat in the system?

After money power it is more about emotional black-mailing and driving on emotions rather than concrete work. To tackle both a system requires change as well as people more educated and participation in process. few ideas came to mind..

Currently, we have constituency wise candidate selection. for which equation of money, cast, religion and other factors are taken in account. all party still works for this equation. election commission had several time spoke about crushing and monitoring menace of money and muscle power during elections.

how about impersonal voting? No promotion of candidate, no candidature selection, no form filling. EC selects team of 20-30 members constituency-wise to find problems in constituency. problems figure out been put forth to party as well as candidate [represented by symbol rather than name/profile] for providing solutions. there solutions are distributed as purely selection basis among electorates. voting takes place based on it.

similarly state-wise party been asked to form a ministry with before hand mentioning person for particular portfolio. state-wise committee of 20-30 personal for each portfolio [which included experts, civil servant as well as few common people], they put forth a set of problem & questions, tasks. Based upon work they do in task, way they solve or plan to solve problem & questions - committee decides 1st representative and 2nd representative. additionally state-wise voting for ministry can be done. and on average of both winners be elected as prime representative. It might be also a good idea to put cabinet candidate to stay in Big-Boss house for at least two weeks. live telecast on national channel. people can see how they behave as well as solve problems and does task given to them. even though one can act but acting 24*7 is too difficult.

combine result of seat won constituency wise, %vote share and state-wise winning ministry [cabinet] been aggregated. this decide seats sharing in assembly. and functioning.

also rather than 5 year tenure, it can be extended to 6 years with two-term review at two year duration. there every candidate who had been given responsibility of constituency need to give report of his/her work in two year, a committee review on it. Also, response from electorate given a time-period to lodge their dissatisfaction, if count goes above some set-margin, provision to remove person and replace by other.

Plenty of thoughts, churning and more better system can emerge out. Rather than following same model of British democracy that to of 20th century, it might be time to rethink and device more better system for electing representative and curbing the menace of money, muscle and mandal power.

i have written as rather thoughts keep on playing in head its better they get silence by coming out and seat there.

We might have got political freedom, yet democracy needs to be established and new better system of government still need to be found.

hoping that will also been done in this century...