00:00let's get also an understanding of where the voter turnout is it's come down to some 57 percent
00:06i'm told at the moment with just minutes to go with just about last 20 minutes to go before
00:12voting actually ends today but let's bring on a mumbai car to understand what's been happening
00:16magna panth is back with us on the program uh magna is a mumbai car and author as well
00:22magna we spoke a couple of days ago and we said oh mumbai should come out 56 percent 57 percent
00:28like how are you expecting change with that it's beyond ridiculous but first let's put an end to
00:33this controversy of the i went to vote uh in fact twice today because in the morning it was so
00:39crowded i've got an acetone bottle here sorry but it's an acetone bottle and i've dabbed it here and
00:45this is my inked finger now let's see if it's coming off it is not so i think it's an unnecessary
00:53controversy i think we don't have to take it very seriously but i think sonal one thing i'll
00:58point out okay magna panth has given us a quick reality check over there maybe it happened in
01:02certain booths and not in the others because the video that you saw there was actually of a reporter
01:07doing it so he managed to do it so clearly there's some discrepancy there but good to know
01:11it's not been uh there all over yeah go ahead absolutely so you know sonal i went to vote in the
01:16morning today and i just want to point out one thing you know we're blaming mumbai cars for
01:20voter apathy but i think this may be a myth because i think one thing i saw when i went to
01:25vote i took my two small children with me and there was such long queues and a process that
01:30should take 10 minutes took almost was going to take one to two very exhausting hours and this is
01:35not because of the people because the system is broken now what i saw was these blurry printed
01:40voter rolls and this manual searching this is very inefficient the system you know you've got
01:45these paper-based lists and there's quality photos of people everywhere and each voter lookup is
01:51taking at least 15 to 30 minutes and then you're given assigned a booth number there you also get
01:56standing in long lines and the poor polling staff are overworked they're stressed out this is a system
02:01they did not design so all the working professionals all the elderly uh all the parents with children
02:07like mine or caregivers you will simply give up and leave so low voter turnout in mumbai is not
02:13apathy it's administrative friction and it needs to be looked at especially sonal in today's world
02:18because i mean everything is mechanized i mean our groceries are on our phones on apps our railway
02:24i just took the one day bharat this weekend to surat everything is mechanized airports and banks are
02:29mechanized and digitized why is voting still stuck in 1995 there's a simple digital lineup that we need
02:36you enter your voter id you scan a qr code your photo and your booth number appear instantly
02:42even offline and then you get your q tokenization you know this would end but mehna can i bring you
02:48the other side of the story i don't know if you could hear what the soundbite we played of
02:52vishad radlani some time ago he said the opposite of what you're saying he said he went inside and
02:59there were nobody of course your boots are different i'm assuming and the area where he went to cast his
03:05vote i'm assuming it's going to be sober and but that's just me i don't know his address at all
03:10but you know i'm assuming that that's where you know the elite don't come out in vote i'm again like
03:16i'm again underlining i don't know this i'm just assuming that that's the apathy where and the place
03:20where we are seeing lower turnout he said there are more officials than voters so there seems to be
03:26different areas throwing different trends in this very hyper local election which i'm actually glad
03:33about that should be the case but i also voted in south bombay so i had to go back twice in the
03:38morning the crowds were thronging oh so maybe an issue of timing and then i went after lunch around
03:42two o'clock then i went back and that time it was completely empty i was in and out in 10 minutes
03:48so i think it really depends on your timing also and this is again something that we should learn
03:52from that go in the afternoon time you know around lunch or post lunch uh and but more than
03:58anything else sonal i think we really need to respect voters time because mumbai is a city
04:02that runs on minutes you have to digitize the entire voting process otherwise people will not
04:07show up this is not the city that has a lot of idle time people are literally running second to
04:13second everywhere so even though it's a public holiday please respect the voters time and we need
04:18to in the next elections learn from this please mechanize the entire process and have mobile free
04:23verification so that when i enter a polling booth i'm in and out in five minutes i think that
04:28rahul gandhi might not be very happy with the suggestion you're making he's had his own issues
04:32with evm even arvind keish jiwal has had his own issues with evm so i'm not sure how they're going
04:36to respond but actually i feel digitization should happen on the other end there should be like an app
04:42or some place where we can go and find out about the history of all the candidates i think that's
04:46more critical for me as a voter you know an app or a website where i could go and i could see okay
04:51this is the area i vote in these are all the candidates who are in the fray and someone who
04:55can give me a full background upon the candidates the work they did have a rating system of sorts i
05:00think that's the kind of digitization we need more don't you think oh my god sona you've hit upon such
05:06a brilliant idea if they want to reach the youth if they want to reach gen z if they want to get young
05:11people to come out and vote you have got to educate them there is no education on how i didn't know
05:17anything about the bmc elections i had to educate myself because people around me again mostly south
05:22bombay eyes who seem to also live in a vacuum and very vacuous sometimes in that terms i think
05:27there's a lot of political apathy because there's no knowledge of politics so people were saying
05:31things like the bmc elections about voting for the prime minister so i actually made a reel about it
05:36because i couldn't meet the level of the lack of knowledge that people have in mumbai about politics
05:42they only know about bollywood and bsc but nothing about the bmc and i think this is something
05:47really little bit of education would really have a young person who speaks in you know a relatable way
05:55to reach out to uh people of this category you'll get more of a voter turnout it should not be an
06:02othering which is taking place where politics has seen something that you know belongs to people
06:07who will be given electricity uh you know subsidies or railway subsidies it should reach out to
06:12everybody because mumbai is the place of the highest number of millionaires so let's keep that
06:16in mind also it should be all in compassion i actually have another suggestion i think people
06:22who don't vote there should be some kind of penalty there as well people who take holidays around that
06:27time there should be some penalties there as well but like i said i have lots of these ideas i don't
06:31know who's listening but if anybody is please take them into account i would love it to have a more
06:35accountable uh voter base more than just you know just government and officials over there but we
06:40leave it there for the moment and let's see what comes out of these results migra panth good that you
06:45went and casted your vote good that your ink was at least permanent we'll see how that went for other
06:49mumbai cars in a moment from now thank you sona
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