India at Crossroads Q&A: Who Should I Vote For?
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Student: How should a voter decide what to choose?
Student: What decisions should be made
Student: when they go to the voting panel?
Amartya Sen: Lesser of two bad things.
Amartya Sen: That's what it is.
Amartya Sen: That's what choice is about.
Amartya Sen: More of good things,
Amartya Sen: less of bad things.
Amartya Sen: So, there's nothing surprising...
Amartya Sen: I would like him to also count,
Amartya Sen: I think the count brings out quite clearly,
Amartya Sen: that at this time,
Amartya Sen: Modi's bad influences are much stronger
Amartya Sen: than his good influences.
Ruchira Gupta: I would vote along the lines of choosing an approach
Ruchira Gupta: and thinking of whose approach
Ruchira Gupta: is going to help me more.
Ruchira Gupta: Do I want freedom of speech?
Ruchira Gupta: Do I want freedom of association?
Ruchira Gupta: Do I want to be able to go to a university
Ruchira Gupta: and study freely of all the textbooks,
Ruchira Gupta: which are full of facts and not full of mythology?
Ruchira Gupta: Do I want to have a love marriage
Ruchira Gupta: across caste or religion?
Ruchira Gupta: Do I want people who are poorer than me
Ruchira Gupta: to have at least basic food,
Ruchira Gupta: a free education and healthcare?
Ruchira Gupta: I would choose an approach
Ruchira Gupta: rather than thinking about
Ruchira Gupta: the lesser of two evils.
Ruchira Gupta: And in that approach,
Ruchira Gupta: I would not think about the leaders that,
Ruchira Gupta: you know, is it this leader versus that leader?
Ruchira Gupta: Because, ultimately, it's going to be
Ruchira Gupta: through consensus and hopefully
Ruchira Gupta: a parliamentary democracy will prevail.
Ruchira Gupta: And, so, people will come to some consensus together.
Ruchira Gupta: I would look for the approach
Ruchira Gupta: and vote for the right approach.
Prabhat Patnaik: We are having a situation where
Prabhat Patnaik: students in JNUniversity
Prabhat Patnaik: are charged with sedition.
Prabhat Patnaik: We have people who are civil rights activists
Prabhat Patnaik: who are in jail, in solitary confinement at this moment.
Prabhat Patnaik: All kinds of trumped up charges.
Prabhat Patnaik: This is very serious.
Prabhat Patnaik: That being the case,
Prabhat Patnaik: my approach would be to vote for the person
Prabhat Patnaik: who you think is the strongest to defeat the BJP.