Dehradun, June 9 -- Any party that advocates for the return of the ballot box system of voting has to be suffering from amnesia. Has it been forgotten how much fake voting took place in the past, with each political group taking over polling booths in areas where they dominated and denying local minorities their right to vote? Only parties that retain such grassroots strangleholds may want a return to the old system, such as the TMC in West Bengal and the BJP in most of North India. But for the Congress party to make this demand at the present when it has the weakest cadre on the ground is laughable.
Ask any citizen of the country who has witnessed firsthand the processes that the electoral system has been through, and he or she would test...