It was a normal morning, when I got up a little earlier than usual and decided to 'gear up' myself for probably the second most sought out event by all the news channels only after the spiced up "BREAKING' news as entertaining as if not more entertaining than the daily soaps. I am talking about the poll results for the five states of Delhi, MP, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh and Mizoram.The media all set to do the analysis of the polls along with their political gurus and experts, interviewing the ever so cocky and confident ministers err contestants in this context. The irony was in the fact that all of them were overconfident of winning. I still have not figured yet whether to attribute this to their imbecility or their arrogance. The results, as I found out later during the day, were Congress winning in Delhi, Rajasthan and Mizoram and BJP in MP and Chattisgarh.
What I found disturbingly funny was the way these politicians politicised our catastrophes for the sake of winning votes. They themselves refer to these as their 'political issues and agendas' which tend to be their issues and agendas even for the next election and an election after that and yet another and so on and so forth. It never seems to end. For instance, they have been successful in politicising even the dastardly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, by accusing other parties of politicising them. Well I agree that all the politicians are politically correct and they are doing everything possible to win the elections. But is a politician required to be just politically correct to win the elections without much attention to their moral bearings? If no then why do they succeed in winning an election even though they are morally wrong? Is it again because the Indian constitution gives a fundamental right to vote even to a person who is incapable of exercising his diligence? Why, in spite of so much talk, is there no minimum education qualification prescribed to contest an election?
Still we fancy ourselves as the largest democracy in the world, in spite of knowing it is this large democracy which is hurting the interest of our citizens. The problems we are facing now are the result of the excessive freedom given to the people who misuse it and do not deserve it. And yet we are reluctant to bring a major change in the constitution which was adopted in a totally different era, which is suitable only to that era itself. But sadly we have reached a point where it will take a large scale political upheaval to change this rotten system once and for all. I sincerely hope this upheaval has begun with the economic and security problems we are facing today!!!
3 comments:
Fine what you have expressed but the problem doesn't solve with this. I think in addition to this govt should implement strict Laws and there should be De-politicization of POLICE so that they can work with full efficiency.
Yes but the problem is that the Government does not do it .. We have so many politicians with criminal record openly contesting the elections and winning .. Abu Salem, the self proclaimed underworld don openly contests elections from India... The whole system is flawed and it needs to be changed... The politicians do not want to dilute their power and hence are so reluctant to implement the measures.
All I can do, is sigh! And hope for things to get better. I did join the peace rally in New Delhi and lit candles and prayed. But I think finally media is making some use of itself to teach these politicians a lesson. It is so good to know that popular faces have joined hands with the Media and are now hell bent on teaching these politicians a lesson! If we have to do something to make the system better, we gotta STOP paying taxes! They can stop a couple of hundreds, but what if we all join hands on this one? They will be forced to do something... Enough is enough now, and the youth of the country need to work towards having a better political system to secure our own country.
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