SP Singh in this is­sue of Daleel show grap­ples with this is­sue with po­lit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor Dr Pramod Ku­mar.

Should you vote for the can­di­date? Should you vote for his party? Should you vote to make some­one the PM?

Are is­sues of your state more im­por­tant? Should you wait on ba­sis of what your state has gained, or what chal­lenges your coun­try faces from an in­im­i­cal neigh­bour?

De­cid­ing which way you cast your vote is a highly com­plex process.

In this is­sue, SP Singh en­gages with Dr Pramod Ku­mar, well known po­lit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor, pol­icy an­a­lyst and an ex­pert in ad­min­is­tra­tive re­forms. Dr Ku­mar heads the In­sti­tute of De­vel­op­ment and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (IDC), the Chandi­garh-based think tank.

The talk hov­ers around pol­i­tics of Elec­tion Man­i­festos, the ac­tion­able promises these con­tain and their ide­o­log­i­cal con­tent. Dr Ku­mar also en­gages with the real con­tent of pol­i­tics and the drama that goes in its name.

In­ter­est­ingly, Dr Pramod Ku­mar un­der­lines the im­por­tance and cen­tral­ity of the pol­i­tics of re­sis­tance and dis­sent, and ques­tions the evo­lu­tion of pol­i­tics in which this es­sen­tial el­e­ment of pol­i­tics has been purged from the sys­tem.

No ef­fec­tive democ­racy can func­tion in the ab­sence of fo­rums to voice dis­sent force­fully, he says.

Daleel de­bates why BJP has opted for ex­ces­sively high use of emo­tions, and the un­due stress on mat­ters of na­tional se­cu­rity.