Voting Controversy

I agree that the contest is over, Aneek has been declared the winner and we should all move on. But the controversies generated are not only unfortunate but also need a sort of "closure".

What has surprised me is that, right up to the Finals, none of us (on this forum) had any idea about such controversies. All of us thought that everything is simple, straightforward and aboveboard ---we just have to keep on voting and everything will be taken care of.

All these doubts have surfaced only after the Finals. In the circumstances, there is a certain responsibility devolving on the Channel --- they ought to have made things very clear right from the start. Though the Zee spokesman (Ashish Kaul ?) has tried to give some sort of explanation, it is not quite satisfactory. The principal question is : was everyone (and I am specifically including members of this Forum) fully aware of the voting systems being followed by the Channel and whether the same system (whatever it was) was adhered to throughout the Competition ? I don't think there is or can be a positive answer to this poser.

It is only after the Finals that we have been told that SMS/Votes from some particular region or regions were not "eligible" for inclusion in the counting. The question is : did the people/voters in these regions clearly told that their SMS?Votes would not be counted ? I don't think anybody in this Forum had any idea about this, right up to the Finals. Does it not mean that people/music-lovers/voters from these regions were kept in the dark (deliberately, perhaps) ? Is it not a shame that all these voters wasted so much of their time, effort and money (maybe running into crores of rupees or other currency) in sending futile votes and SMS ?

Results apart, the Channel needs to answer these questions in a clear and candid fashion. And if there was a mistake somewhere, they should own it up in good grace.

There were speculations previously too while the show was running that the show is rigged or there is another inside story that all are not aware of.

Sadly the discussion hasn't ended yet as all our questions have not been answered properly and this leaves us in a more suspicious state.

Khaamosh ji:

Are you a big fan of Shatrughan Sinha? Because when ever I hear KHAAAMOSH, I think of Shatru.

One request, would you please reduce the font size.

what closure would you want? what would bring a closure?

Unfortunately even if you have the most independant of the independant of auditors audit these votes you will still have a section of the vocal population going beserko since their fav lost and questioning the results

Even if the guy would have answered your questions, people would still be finding loopholes in the argument

Even if you had a respected auditor auditing the votes, do you think that would have stopped someone like Ismail Darbar from crying foul? 😆 Who are we kidding her

Anytime someone looses we will be crying foul, burning effigies, nothing will stop that, that is what we do, that is who we are 😉 accept it, move on 😆

oh sorry the moving on part, we havent learnt that yet, if we had, why would I be writing this post, sorry my bad 😉

Can you imagine if the voting system had been based on a decision to be made by 4 independent judges, there could be death threats on the poor judges by angry protesters. So this problem of unhappy viewers will always remain especially when your favourite is kicked out. Their minds will completely stop functioning. 😆