It is absolutely fine if you do not vote in the coming elections. Asking you to vote compulsorily is like enforcing a caste system.
Consider the Jaago Re ad on television in which a ‘young’ man and his friend offer tea to people who have not cast their vote. You are sleeping-he tells them. When they retort that they are awake, the man says that if on Election Day people are not voting then they are obviously sleeping. The embarrassed/awakened people then accept the cup of tea as the two young men walk confidently amidst the crowd.
Compulsory voting is subterfuge.
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