Indirect Election

Direct Election doesn't exist on planet earth.

Even in United States of America, citizens do not directly elect the President.

On the ballot, there were no names of candidates such as, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

People vote for the electors. On November 8, 2016, people did vote for the electors only. Citizens cannot directly vote and elect the President. On December 19, 2016, the state electors vote for the President and Vice President.

They do have one condition: both candidates, President and Vice President cannot be from the same state. As Donald Trump is from New York state, the Vice President cannot be from New York. Mike Pence, the Vice President is from Indiana.

So, declaring Presidential Candidates ahead of national election is unconstitutional. Alexander Hamilton gave reasons for not supporting the direct election of the President and Vice President.

In India also, there is no direct election. Citizens of India do not directly elect the Prime Minister. People do elect the Member of Lok Sabha and in turn those members elect the Prime Minister.

Indirect Elections so far have given protection for the traditional politicians. Indirect Elections discourage any outsiders to challenge the traditional politicians.

To prevent any further surprises, the traditional politicians need to amend the constitution in their favor.

With Simultaneous Election, they could introduce restrictions for new comers.

For the General Lok Sabha elections, only registered political parties could contest the elections. Completely stop the Independents.

Only registered National Political party could contest the Lok Sabha elections. In that case, there will be only two elections symbols. One is Lotus and other is Hand.

Even regional parties would form an alliance, they need to contest the election only with these two symbols.

In that situation, the Telugu Desam Chandrababu cannot leave the alliance.

Likewise, regional parties also need protection.

So, established regional parties are DMK and ADMK.

So, anyone would like to join in politics, they could either join in DMK or in ADMK.

Then, for State Elections, we could have only two symbols; one is Rising Sun and other is Two Leaves.

In the current scenario, any new comers could come into politics and contest the elections.

The traditional political parties have made a lot of sacrifice and dedicated their life. How could some strangers challenge those traditional politicians?

In that way, we could avoid surprises.