Indian election Phase 1 completed despite Naxal protests

Finally, the first phase of election is completed despite some protest from the Naxal groups. I have used word 'protest' rather than attack with a purpose. No doubt they are against the system of democracy but that is not a cause of worry for the nation because there will be many thousand people/citizen in India without much faith in democracy. Concern for the nation is massive support for the Naxalite movement in almost one third of the country.

They must be getting support for some reason. As I discussed in my other post that they are not terrorists but they have a cause and they are frustrated with the negligence by the nation. How many of us know the name of all the states in the North-east other than Assam. (These are Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura). Of course Assam is the largest state in that region but other states have their identity as well. National media always talk about them as a single entity but unfortunately that is not the truth.

Our (people sitting in the Delhi) expectation is that the people living in these states should sit and obliged to exercise their franchise whenever we decide to conduct election. We do not need to provide them road connectivity with rest of the country and neither need to provide them universities or industry. We can offer them some seats in JNU and Delhi university as reservation and let them feel that they are foreigner in their own country by calling them 'chinki'. Or the worse consider each girl from that region as prostitute. I have no data to prove or discard these allegation. If some of them involved into prostitution it is even shame for us and not for them because they might have to involve into this profession to survive in expensive city like Delhi and we will not like to give them job either if we have other candidates who look similar to us.

In such conditions great people of India still dare to come out to exercise their franchise. We should salute them. But we should not forget that the solution to the naxalite movement is not in fortifying our cities and elite institutions but in providing in providing the people outside cities with the basic facilities and opportunities as we have. This should be done without reservation because they are not weak whatever caste or religion they belong to if they do. If we can do that in next five years we will not have to deploy so much army and police in that region and we will see peaceful elections because people in that region are not inherently violent.