Questions from returning officers are a joke to election processs l

[GoldenAsif]

Re: Questions from returning officers are a joke to election processs l

@kakaballi

The countries with more than 90% literacy rate do not have any educational qualification requirements for members of parliament. The mentality of these ‘learned’ judges (Returning Officers) reflect our society and they are supposed to be highly educated (in Pakistani context).

If there are people like Raja Riaz are bad examples of uneducated politicians, we’ve had Oxford educated mega corrupt Prime Minister too. There is no correlation between education and political competency or between education and corruption. There is no need to take away the right of a vast majority of our population to work as representatives of people.

It should be up to the people to elect who they think represent them the best.** If you believe that illiterate people are necessarily criminal and corrupt too, that’s a bit unfair to a huge population of Pakistan.**

I didn’t say that nor do I want to entrust illiterate people with the important responsibility of interpreting/making laws of the country

And you can usu. find someone who is atleast a graduate among most village societies (even many educated people living in the cities have roots in the villages, is that not true?) of today … so that is hardly a good excuse