Zero voting in Chhattisgarh Maoist bastion by poll: what a contrast with Bihar! Pamed, Chhatisgarh: according to a very insightful and painstaking report in the English press, seven polling booths in Chhattisgarh reported zero voting in the Bastar Lok Sabha constituency bypoll. By itself, this may not be very startling news if one were to focus on the remoteness of the site alone. But place it along side our earlier report ‘Around 200 supporters, sympathisers and members of banned outfit CPI (Maoist) in fray for panchayat elections’ [http://wp.me/p14ArU-38Y]and you begin to see a new...