Yeah! you read it correct!
After seeing the effect of web media in election, now Indian politicians are also following the same path. It’s good to know that! I don’t have much idea about other politician’s blogging. But here is a link to Mr. L K Advani’s blog. Please do add a comment here if you find the link to blog of other political people so that I can add ‘em here.

So, now directly post a comment on his blog and ask him a question!

“right To Say No”

It has been on lots of forum and blogs  that we can say “I VOTE NOBODY” when we go to vote… because, in a ward, if a candidate wins, say by 123 votes, and that particular ward has received “49-O” votes more than 123, then that polling will be cancelled and will have to be re-polled. Not only that, but the candidature of the contestants will be removed and they cannot contest the re-polling, since people had already expressed their decision on them. This would bring fear into parties and hence look for genuine candidates for their parties for election. This would change the way, of our whole political system… it is seemingly surprising why the election commission has not revealed such a feature to the public….

Do you think this can be correct ?

Election Comission of India says this is not the case. People can obviously deny to vote, but there will not be any re-poll just because of this reason. For more details please refer to the pdf released by them. Here is the link to the pdf:

http://www.eci.gov.in/press/current/pn051208.pdf

Edited on 6th April:
The above Links seems to be broken, the document is still available at:
http://eci.nic.in/press/current/pn051208.pdf