India: The General Elections Lead to the Decimation of Stalinists

Apart from the manner in which the ‘free will’ of the people is not only corrupted through thousand means by money power, but also controlled by corporate media run through the power of millions, with which we all are well versed, the deceptive algebra of bourgeois democracy is marked by a chasm between the real mandate counted in votes on the one hand and the number of seats won or lost, on the other. The number of seats won by parties in the elections, hardly reflect upon the landscape of quantum or percentage of votes obtained by them............