Psephology Of NPC Election And Deconstructing The Politics Of The Social Architects
Dr. Krishna Kalaichelvan
“Until the Day of Judgement, the Augustinian teaching on the two kingdoms will have to face the two fold open question: Quis judicabit? Quis interpretabitur? [‘Who will decide? Who will interpret?’]…This is the big question posed by Thomas Hobbes.” – Carl Schmitt in Political Theology II: The myth of the closure of any political theology.
The recently concluded Northern Provincial Council (NPC) election has elicited a flurry of interpretations and analyses by various observers, in order to find out the ‘truth’ behind the electoral behaviour of Tamil people on the 21st of September. Not surprisingly, many of those interpretations are tinged with the ideology of those interpreters. In this piece of writing, I would like to address two major issues; firstly, the ahistorical reading of the 2013 election results as Tamil people’s “defiance” by denying the fact that the Tamils have always been voting with defiance, since 1950s onwards. Secondly, The Social Architects’ (TSA) ludicrous analysis [1] of the NPC election must be critiqued in order to address some of TSA’s dangerously misleading interpretations and politically loaded statements.
Understanding the Tamil electoral behaviour
