How to Stop bad-mouthing in the Election Campaign

Voting has been completed for the Delhi Assembly elections tomorrow, the results will also come on 11 February. But like every election, in these elections too, there was accusation and bad attitude. Hit the shoes, shoot, Hindustan-Pakistan, from current curbs to the Prime Minister, the matter reached. The language, accent and words that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi used for the Prime Minister in the election meeting are indecent and should be opposed. It cannot be avoided by saying that the people of the ruling party used similar language. Nor can it be said later that this happens in the election campaign. When big leaders use such language, then small workers will go a step ahead and do indecent acts. What the big leaders speak has an immediate effect. By talking positively, supporters are peaceful, while talking negatively, supporters also provoke, chaos arises, violence spreads.

Surprisingly, this time the leaders of the AAP changed their strategy and they did not allow bitterness to participate in the campaign. The most bitter things came out from the mouths of BJP and Congress leaders. Whereas Rahul Gandhi scores a self-goal with his bid at the time of elections. His party is barely able to defend his words and there is a loss in elections. He is also not a veteran himself and seems like his mentor or speechwriter is not experienced.

The Election Commission took a lot of caution in the Delhi elections and nudged the angry leaders. The Commission took action against big leaders like Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur and Pravesh Verma but it did not show any effect.

The police also do the same thing to control riots and chaotic mobs. After grabbing one and starts beating, the others run away in fear. Even in schools, if the children are making noise, then if one of the Master ji stands on the bench, then the rest becomes silent. In companies, even the bosses start a class of one employee in the morning, so the employees stay fearful all day in all the offices. The Commission also runs the proceedings and gives a warning message to the people.

In the last elections too, we had discussed how to stop the charges against each other in the campaign. One solution to this is to reduce election campaign time. One has to think about how to shorten the entire election process. After the installation of computers in the offices, everyone expected that the work should be done sooner and earlier. Similarly, after the use of technology and social media in propaganda, 100% use of EVM in polling, it is expected that the process of publicity, polling and counting is less long. However, it also affects the movement of other resources and security forces.

The more the elections go on, the more the accusation and hostility increases. For this reason, there is also a tradition to stop campaigning 48 hours before voting, but that too has become meaningless now. During these 48 hours, leaders deliberately organize rallies, interviews, issue of manifestos etc. which are telecast live on TV channels. They should also be stopped during these 48 hours, there will be some peace. There was a ban on election campaign in Delhi on 7 February, but many big channels were arrogantly interviewing Arvind Kejriwal, Manoj Tiwari, Prime Minister’s meeting was happening in Assam, Shaheen Bagh was being shown live. All this is indirect publicity. While the Supreme Court exercised restraint, the hearing on Shaheen Bagh was not held on 7 February due to elections.

We have two suggestions, one is to reduce the election process, campaign time. Secondly, during 48 hours of publicity, publicity on news channels and social media was also strictly prohibited. Necessary changes should be made in the rules in this regard.