No one likes.

BJP and Congress were trying to come to power in the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections and their future is locked in the ballot box. Both parties campaigned heavily to woo voters, but in some villages and towns there were citizens who were announcing boycotts because of their issues or their views. However, both the political parties neglected him. No one went to explain them. They put up banners on four roads that read 'no roads or water, no votes'. The question is who will they boycott by not voting? The number of people who opt for the option 'Rashanch' means 'none of the above' is also not small.

They argue that in the current political system there is no party or candidate that they can vote for. Based on this logic, they use NOTA which neither re-elects the incumbent government nor the opposition. Balloted votes will be counted, but will not count. Therefore, one needs to think about the right to choose for or against while voting. Another challenge before the Election Commission is how to convert the voters who opt for Nota into the mainstream. Elections are not held only for victory, so by NOTA it is better that unhappy people can show their strength by fielding their candidates. A decade ago, the NGO People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a system in which people who disagreed with any candidate could vote.

After a long hearing, the Supreme Court directed the Election Commission to make necessary provisions for this in the ballot paper-EVM. After this the Election Commission e. S. In 2013, it was decided to provide an alternative to notes in electronic voting machines. The commission believed that NOTA could instill confidence in democracy among people who would not go to vote expressing their displeasure with the government or the opposition. After getting this option in the EVMs, the voters who felt uncomfortable to vote for any one candidate also started going to the polling station. In fact, it is a democratic system, but when it becomes a mandatory means for some institutions to express their displeasure, it needs to be reconsidered. Votes cast in notes have no value. Even if the maximum number of votes from any constituency is tabulated, it will not affect the victory or defeat of the candidates.

If we e. S. If we look at the 2018 election results, we will find that there were 11 assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh where NOTA vote was considered as the main reason behind the defeat of BJP candidates, but in reality this is just an idea. It is hard to believe that people who opted for NOTA in 11 seats dislike BJP candidates. He also disliked the opposition candidate who won from that seat. In that election, NOTA polled 1.42 percent of the total votes cast.

The number of these votes was 5,40,673. Similarly, E. S. Nota got 3,40,984 votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as well. This was 66 percent of the total voting. Former finance minister Jayant Malaya from Damoh was much talked about among the BJP candidates who lost by a narrow margin in the assembly elections. He lost by a margin of only 798 votes while NOTA got many more votes. There were many such examples. To console themselves, the losing candidates present the argument that they would have won if Nota's votes were not lost, but perhaps this is an argument, not a reality.