The enormity of Bharatiya Janata Party made me pull the lever for Aam Aadmi Party. But the calculus of the lesser evil as a guide to political action isn’t available to everyone equally
I voted as I always do, in a government secondary school close to where I live. Delhi was scorching when we set out to vote, the air a solid mass of heat trying to melt the bodies that interrupted it. I considered shorts but a bourgeois sense of occasion — this was a general election — suggested respectability and trousers.
Not having acquired voter cards, my wife and I left for the polling station holding our Aadhaar cards and voter slips. In elections gone by, these slips were inserted into letter boxes by party cadres trying to get out the vote. There was nothing official about them; they were often stamped with political symbols that were obviously partisan, but they were a reassurance because they indicated that your name was on the electoral roll. This time round, the residents’ association had sent us official voter information slips issued by the Election Commission which seemed altogether more formal….
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