How are MPs who do not know how to vote!

New Delhi: It is a wonderful aspect that the honourable Parliamentarians of India, who are elected by millions of people by casting their votes, when it comes to their turn to vote, they make a mistake. The votes of 15 MPs have become invalid in the election of the Vice President. Think about these MPs! An MP is the representative of an average of 1.6 m people and what can be said about him if he does not know how to perform a simple task like casting votes? There were only two candidates for the Vice-President’s election and each MP had to write his order of preference next to the candidate. That is, if the MP was from BJP, he had to write 1 in front of Dhankhar’s name and if he was from Congress, he had to write 1 in front of Margaret Alva. Despite this, vote of 15 MPs became invalid.

In the presidential election held just 15 days ago also, the votes of 15 MPs were also invalid. In the presidential election, close to 4,800 MLAs cast their votes and 748 MPs voted. Vote of only 38 MLAs became invalid, while the vote of 15 MPs of 748 became invalid. There too only 1 was to be written in front of the candidate of his choice. There were only 13 states in the country where no MLA cast invalid votes. Among them there are also states like Bihar and Chhattisgarh. But many MLAs from Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra cast invaild votes. MPs and MLAs are trained properly, yet they make mistakes even in such a simple voting process. Certainly they should be traced and trained as well as warned.