Should voters be given a NOTA (None Of The Above) choice?

Ok have read lots of view about NOTA as option in election board. Yes I do agree as an option for NOTA during election. Because as in group of particular political party we people can't get a chance to pick the right full leader as they themselves do appoint to fight for the leadership, so as waste of public voter right there should be an option to decide the particular leader is not right person. Means people can show their view as if leader that is appointed is not perfect. And in any means if NOTA has highest vote than the appointed leader by their parties should remove from battle for chair and appoint some other leader. I guess by NOTA option we people could get good chance to appoint the rightful person to lead us.

No doubt its a very good option provided nowadays to voters to initiate them to vote at least and not to waste their votes even they are not in support of any candidate. But it will be best at its service if each voter is aware of the actual meaning, use and consequences of NOTA. Only then NOTA can prove helpful for voters as well as for nation. Because nowadays not many people are aware and the no.of voters use this option is very low. Which result in almost negligible effect of NOTA option.

Hello everyone,

I think the politics is like a market where the seller is trying to sell the leaders to us. They are advertising about their products and as a customer we must judge the product all by ourselves and if we don't like it, we should have an option not to buy the product. But judging by current conditions, if the whole market is full of rotten products, and if we don't buy anything, it will be us returning empty handed.

So, NOTA is undoubtedly a good choice, but we must take the responsibility of not having a leadership. Since almost all intellectuals lack the need to go for politics due to its ill effects, we should think about our responsibilities to the nation before casting the vote to NOTA, as it is not merely the solution of the problem we are facing now.

Hi friends,

NOTA should be provide during at election. This would be the greatest tool for measure the spoilness of political system. A voter should have this right that who choose any option to vote a candidate or not. This gonna be right step in improving the percentage of voting because there are some in society who want to give vote but due lack of good option they are not interested to give their vote any person therefore if there is option for NOTA then at least voter come to EVM machine to press the NOTA option. In my opinion this would be great step to improvement percentage of voting currently we only have highest 85% of voting we need to take it at 100.

Hello, everyone!

We can definitely have NOTA only if the government should eliminate those who have contested already in the election for the re-conduction of an election when NOTA has more votes than any other parties. Because rather than looking for correct routes it's wiser if we eliminate the wrong routes that we have.

Thank you.

I don't think NOTA is a viable solution at this stage of Indian development.

1. Even an ordinary election requires a huge lot of effort, time and load some of the capital to campaign, manage and run the electoral process effectively. NOTA might result in null and void results putting all the resources in vain.

2. The main AIM of NOTA is approval of best candidature. Every community wants to be represented by the best themselves. A fair part of Indian society would never be unanimous about the approval of the 'perfect' candidate. Hence, NOTA will result in unfavourable results, most of the time.

3. The outcomes of NOTA will create the governance issue. In case of cancelled elections, the problems caused in the interim will be quite debatable at times.

4. The re-election due to NOTA will not always guarantee maximum participation of the common man. They are expected to decrease with re-election for every turn.

5. Instead of implementing NOTA strategy per say, bars should be put on the candidature selection process by adopting fair practices like minimum educational qualification, clean judicial record etc. To ensure the best candidate to come up in the elections.

Implementing NOTA right now is a non-feasible solution for the betterment of Indian Politics for now. Other alternate ways need to be suggested.

If NOTA will be applied and then NOTA wins the election and then they start re-election then In the re-election they should choose by checking people's qualifications & the backgrounds to vote. So that the election will be successful. If they don't want to reelect the third time.

NOTA is a very good concept derived by some activist. None of the above is definitely going to play a very important role in future politics. People can choose and at the same time, they can opt for none. This is the real power of democracy. India which is a democratic country but some politician is ruling the nation because we have to choose somebody. Now with NOTA, we can discard and demand some new faces and can select them.

Leaders are made by their work, by their ability, by their efforts and intention to work for people, but in India, leaders are decided by party tickets. With the help of NOTA, these all things can be controlled.

Hi, everyone.

I have a point to discuss with you that why voters should be provided with NOTA.

Friends if we look on our constitution it does not ask any qualification education from politicians which is a major drawback of our constitution. Anybody who is above the age of 30, a citizen of India and having no criminal records can stand in elections whether he is qualified or not. According to constitution Public need from the government is a common agenda which everyone should know but if see the condition of our nation it is impossible to believe on any politician and can say that he is corrupted or not. We elect only those politicians who are less corrupted not to those who are corruption free because they are not there. So if we provide NOTA to them it will become easy for voters to take right decisions.

NOTA's presence may bring indifference in our democratic country. Because a democracy means people choose their government who can run the state. If none of the leaders are chosen so who will administrate the state?

People of the nation must be indifferent towards their duties if the NOTA is given. I think NOTA may no longer work if citizens are educated and non-corrupted as well.