Hyderabad, 9:30am IST: I am all set to go to office and before having my breakfast, I had a glance over my balcony. Outside temperatures are soaring and driving in that hot sun tired me already. I came inside and switched on TV to watch something while having breakfast. Any channel I browsed has only one topic with different titles “ELECTIONS”. This is much hotter than temperatures outside.
I could see politicians from various parties abusing each other, competing with each other, trying to lure public with various temporary incentives. One common pattern in all their speeches is highlighting other party’s drawbacks, how badly they are corrupt and bad scenario we will face if they come to power. Nobody spoke about what long term goals they have to achieve only one big basic necessity of people “WORK”. Yes, if everyone has work they themselves will acquire rest of the three “Food, Clothing and Shelter”.
As I continued watching, there is live coverage of a politician rallying in a slum area. He stopped near a house and one old lady came out. He was asking, rather begging to vote for him but the lady was all in tears because there is no electricity in her house, no drinking water at all, her family is having all sorts of illness due to non responsive behaviour of GHMC and nobody bothers to visit them. Not only her but everybody in that area had same issues. This fellow won as MLA from that constituency successfully 2 times and this is his hatrick attempt.
I had 2 questions to my dad, how come this fellow never got chance in 10 years to improve that area? After elections and government is formed these leaders never approach people rather people wait in queues outside his office or residence. Why? His answers were: these people being uneducated and ignorant of long term benefits took money and elected him. So after he is elected, his only concentration was on earning that money back rather than improving. Next, the only magic that drags these politicians to the colonies is our right to vote, once that is gone nobody cares.
So the key is with us. We gave them the power to play with our lives. Educated population is too busy to vote while rural population is ignorant about vote. In our cafeteria, on our lunch table itself, I could see 4 votes going waste because of their attitude “What difference our single vote make?” IT MAKES.
Thankfully, media is also doing good campaign on how difference can a vote make and how important it is to vote. It is also airing small snippets on the present parties, their manifesto gimmicks and trying to explain rural people not to get tempted with cheap incentives like liquor or money to sell their vote, thus selling their lives.
So spend that important hour and elect the person by judging on their background and their dedication to work for improvement in your area. If you feel none of the candidates are eligible, still go and cancel your vote before polling officer.
Hence, take some time out and try to keep our system in place and then we can be busy with our works for next 5 years. After all, this is our society, we live here and it is our duty to clean it.
It is not being Ek Din ka Raja (King for a day) but it is being a King Maker and make the king answerable to us.
I could see politicians from various parties abusing each other, competing with each other, trying to lure public with various temporary incentives. One common pattern in all their speeches is highlighting other party’s drawbacks, how badly they are corrupt and bad scenario we will face if they come to power. Nobody spoke about what long term goals they have to achieve only one big basic necessity of people “WORK”. Yes, if everyone has work they themselves will acquire rest of the three “Food, Clothing and Shelter”.
As I continued watching, there is live coverage of a politician rallying in a slum area. He stopped near a house and one old lady came out. He was asking, rather begging to vote for him but the lady was all in tears because there is no electricity in her house, no drinking water at all, her family is having all sorts of illness due to non responsive behaviour of GHMC and nobody bothers to visit them. Not only her but everybody in that area had same issues. This fellow won as MLA from that constituency successfully 2 times and this is his hatrick attempt.
I had 2 questions to my dad, how come this fellow never got chance in 10 years to improve that area? After elections and government is formed these leaders never approach people rather people wait in queues outside his office or residence. Why? His answers were: these people being uneducated and ignorant of long term benefits took money and elected him. So after he is elected, his only concentration was on earning that money back rather than improving. Next, the only magic that drags these politicians to the colonies is our right to vote, once that is gone nobody cares.
So the key is with us. We gave them the power to play with our lives. Educated population is too busy to vote while rural population is ignorant about vote. In our cafeteria, on our lunch table itself, I could see 4 votes going waste because of their attitude “What difference our single vote make?” IT MAKES.
Thankfully, media is also doing good campaign on how difference can a vote make and how important it is to vote. It is also airing small snippets on the present parties, their manifesto gimmicks and trying to explain rural people not to get tempted with cheap incentives like liquor or money to sell their vote, thus selling their lives.
So spend that important hour and elect the person by judging on their background and their dedication to work for improvement in your area. If you feel none of the candidates are eligible, still go and cancel your vote before polling officer.
Hence, take some time out and try to keep our system in place and then we can be busy with our works for next 5 years. After all, this is our society, we live here and it is our duty to clean it.
It is not being Ek Din ka Raja (King for a day) but it is being a King Maker and make the king answerable to us.
"Remember: Our Right to Vote = Our Bright Future + Our Right to Question government"
Guys and Gals, count down has started and I am going on April 16th to cast my vote and how about you?
C Ya,
Padma
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