I
read this commercial somewhere a few days back, which floored me to stomach
aches. It said, “Two things you
should never discuss in public, i.e. Politics and Rashes”. Yet, I am here
raising the same questions for which I have been forbidden, repetitively if I
must say.
Polls,
Polls and Polls. This is the only debated flavour on the table today. And
adding an ice cube to it, is the media and its extremely ambigious involvement
to this warfare. Today, the power of
media has reached verticals and henceforth they run moreover parallel to almost
everything. Before elections, there are pre-poll surveys, opinion polls, ennumerous
stings and each channel on the planet comes out with its own set of estimated
corollaries. Pardon me for using the phrase ‘warfare’
but elections are moreover the same on the runway of power and pelf. The only
difference is, it is just bound by democratic rules, thus making it less
miserable, not resulting in a violent blood battle. Otherwise the overall
strategy & planning, execution, funding, cut throat deceits and diplomatic
lies, continue to be analogous to any warfare. Correct me, if I am wrong. We
have been here since decades, endorsing the same scenarios with hopes and
faiths in the improvement of the society and mankind. Apparently, no good deed
has gone unpunished.
The
aura of general elections is evident. We can see banners and posters
everywhere, the election-special-slogans-and-enchants, the promising leaders
and their undying promises, deceiving the same golden eggs which will be served
right after the elections. Suddenly, almost every political party or its
members will go to being the humblest humans possibly existent. Negative
publicities & blames are deliberately framed onto the rivals, the
incompetency of the ruling government being focused most. Every issue on the
facing calendar is brought down to the table, just to win some scores over
others. Eventually, every govt makes some bad decisions or there are under
baked or over baked cakes. But before making allegations, they forget and fail
to understand that “Two Cynics never make
an Optimist”. Elections invariably do bring the true colors of human
nature.
The
inability to seek something good in your neighbour’s dog walker, weakens and
suppresses our enthusiasm, positivity and thoughts, thereby restraining us,
which could have actually led us to go places. We lack compassion. We need to
learn to acknowledge and appreciate others before tabling our agendas. The
concept of me and just my opinions will take us nowhere but in our own
comfortable wells which we conceive as the entire world. We focus more on
what-is-wrong-with-the-next-guy, or the next party or organisation and less on
our own performances and deeds, hardly caring enough to categorize them as good
or bad.
I
believe the national agenda is far left behind. Even we are lost. We are
pre-occupied with who will win the general elections, or what will happen from
amethi, or Rajiv Gandhi’s killers. The theme of the story is mislaid. Someone
has to win anyway. We expect that the upcoming elected government will first
complete the work backlogged in the previous regime, rather than knocking it
off to a back seat or abandoning it. But the bigger question is, Will our
expections be met or just piled up again on the mountain high column of files ?
Who will win the political battle does not concerns me much. People have and
will celebrate victories and defeats, but the thought of us failing as a nation
will dishearten our handicapped souls(for which we are only solely
responsible), again. The urge of the indian psyche to rule needs to be
ridiculed, obsession of the chair must be stopped.
For
what its worth, let’s be mature in making decisions this time, to form our own
government, rather than throwing stones at each other and playing the blame game
afterwards. Let’s try to abolish the system of casting votes on grounds of
caste, colour or creed and let’s try to be more focused on the developments and
efforts to make this world a better place to live in. Let us be aware of the
facts and figures, participate more proactively in the foundation of a true
democracy. Let not any specific issue, occured at some specific time in the past
lying deep down in the dead graves, hamper our decisive capabilities for our
future and deviate us from our vision of a remarkable nation.
