The last few months have been filled with news and views of the Great Indian Elections... The most surprising of events, thrilling plots, intense drama, new friends, "to join or not to join" confusion and so on and so on... As always the promises are plenty... Some believable.. Some fantasy... Some funny.. Some even funnier... But yes.. Across all parties one thing is common and credit has to be given for that... Flinging mudballs at each other and being candid about the cheap post poll friends and enemies strategy...
Today is Election day in Tamil Nadu, and I am home, happily facebooking, twittering and blinking in all directions... Not voting? NO! Reason? No vote for me in TN. I belong to a different state...
Well... That's my diplomatic answer just in case someone asks.. But the real reason...? I am not convinced about any of these promises and sincerely believe, that yet again, they will take us for a ride and still come back in 2014 asking for support... Shamelessly and pointing fingers to the next camp... The day someone campaigns with a set of completed promises from the last campaign with an 80 percent success rate, I will exercise my franchise for him / her. The same way that my bosses do not accept promises for work that's yet to be done, I refuse to accept manifesto promises and commitments.
And yes there is no way some camp is getting me to vote by waving currency notes... Like how this chap who sent me this SMS attempted to...
Shows what matters most to them... And where the donations and funds disappear in part...
Every politician is at the foremost, a social worker. Atleast that's how it is supposed to be. Just because he does not have power, does not mean he is lost of opportunities to carry out his share of promises... Unless it is his / her will to punish the voters for not making them win...
What I have time and again failed to understand is how they could be such selfish creeps in broad daylight with the whole world watching? But then on second thought... Why blame them? If we put them there, we are to blame... If we are not objective about success percentages, in the same way we are about our kid's grades, there is little hope. Twice in a decade there is an uproar about the need to vote and how it is a responsible citizen's duty to exercise that right. Like how the youth fraternity has adopted the mark on the finger as the latest style statement. But then how do I choose between multiple sets of people who are waiting for my mandate to legally screw me and the rest of society for the next set of 5 years? There is no accountability to any citizen for the money paid as tax.. All you get are bumpy roads, cracked bridges, increased corruption, poverty stricken faces, questionable quality of health and education, social irresponsibility and what not... Not to mention financing their lavish lifestyles... And intense campaigning...
That said no part of the world is immune from that carnal greediness for tax payers money as was revealed by The Telegraph earlier this month... And also seconded by this article...
They say that anyone who abets a crime is a criminal himself... Though politicians cannot be singularly referred to as criminals, there are quite a few characters out there (some of whom have already earned jail time credentials to back the claim of a criminal) who are not eligible to safeguard and improve our interests and welfare. Which sums it all...
Some day I hope the system will convince me to vote for a better and promising future... I sincerely do hope so... Till then I choose to stay at home seemingly oblivious of the events that will go down in the books of the country's progress reports and still be happy that I did not choose for this to happen...
Today is Election day in Tamil Nadu, and I am home, happily facebooking, twittering and blinking in all directions... Not voting? NO! Reason? No vote for me in TN. I belong to a different state...
Well... That's my diplomatic answer just in case someone asks.. But the real reason...? I am not convinced about any of these promises and sincerely believe, that yet again, they will take us for a ride and still come back in 2014 asking for support... Shamelessly and pointing fingers to the next camp... The day someone campaigns with a set of completed promises from the last campaign with an 80 percent success rate, I will exercise my franchise for him / her. The same way that my bosses do not accept promises for work that's yet to be done, I refuse to accept manifesto promises and commitments.
And yes there is no way some camp is getting me to vote by waving currency notes... Like how this chap who sent me this SMS attempted to...
Shows what matters most to them... And where the donations and funds disappear in part...
Every politician is at the foremost, a social worker. Atleast that's how it is supposed to be. Just because he does not have power, does not mean he is lost of opportunities to carry out his share of promises... Unless it is his / her will to punish the voters for not making them win...
What I have time and again failed to understand is how they could be such selfish creeps in broad daylight with the whole world watching? But then on second thought... Why blame them? If we put them there, we are to blame... If we are not objective about success percentages, in the same way we are about our kid's grades, there is little hope. Twice in a decade there is an uproar about the need to vote and how it is a responsible citizen's duty to exercise that right. Like how the youth fraternity has adopted the mark on the finger as the latest style statement. But then how do I choose between multiple sets of people who are waiting for my mandate to legally screw me and the rest of society for the next set of 5 years? There is no accountability to any citizen for the money paid as tax.. All you get are bumpy roads, cracked bridges, increased corruption, poverty stricken faces, questionable quality of health and education, social irresponsibility and what not... Not to mention financing their lavish lifestyles... And intense campaigning...
That said no part of the world is immune from that carnal greediness for tax payers money as was revealed by The Telegraph earlier this month... And also seconded by this article...
They say that anyone who abets a crime is a criminal himself... Though politicians cannot be singularly referred to as criminals, there are quite a few characters out there (some of whom have already earned jail time credentials to back the claim of a criminal) who are not eligible to safeguard and improve our interests and welfare. Which sums it all...
Some day I hope the system will convince me to vote for a better and promising future... I sincerely do hope so... Till then I choose to stay at home seemingly oblivious of the events that will go down in the books of the country's progress reports and still be happy that I did not choose for this to happen...
0 Thoughts...:
Post a Comment