We are amidst the election season right now. The biggest democracy in the world has gone to polls. We chose to be a democratic country, so that the people could decide who they want, to be the leaders of the country.
But is that really happening anymore?
Lets take a look:
1) Leaders are made from candidates who choose to contest the elections.
2) Candidates are chosen from the people who run political parties.
3) People who run political parties are powerful people with lots of varied interests.
4) Most of them have court cases against them.
So when we look at it, are we really choosing the people we want? The real picture is that, our choice is limited to the choice of the parties, which run at the whims and fancies of powerful people.
Democracy, maybe not. Hippocracy, May be yes.
So is it really democracy, or autocracy of a person, being camouflaged as democracy?
People in India, vote for parties with specific ideologies.
Fundamentalism, communism, secularism, minority favoritism...
These are the ideologies floated.
But are these parties really following it?
We need to verify, whether we actually believe in all this stuff...
Only when we will objectively decide, we will know whom to choose.
By now choices have been made, and elections almost decided, and another drain of our hard earned resources has taken place, to choose who will make money, who will be irritated because they cant, and will throw allegations.
At the end of it all...what about us?
Let the frustrations for the next five years (hopefully !) begin !
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You do have a point there. Now what I'll be writing is just another way of looking at it..
ReplyDeleteLeaders DO come from the people. Especially if it's someone who doesn't have any political lineage. They are members of student bodies, trade unions etc.. they are usually the spearheads of any local movement. Then they are elected by us at the municipal level as corporators. If the people are satisfied with his/her work, he/she is promoted for the Assembly elections and the final step is the Lok Sabha.
So the options that we have are what we have chosen. Though, there's a lot of sychophancy and appeasement of minorities that goes into selecting a candidate sometimes, but not everytime.
The ideologies floated are (of the major national parties, that is) majorly the Left & the Right.. the Right is again divided into the so-called "secularism" and another so-called "fundamentalism".
Because the entire political scenario is getting murkier by the day, we have to elect a lesser evil and keep in mind national interest rather than personal gains. Whom I voted for has depended entirely upon the answers to :
-who can empower India with technology and infrastructure development
-who can chuck away vote-bank politics and get going with their job
-who can bring India to a better position in such times of economic downturn.
These were my criteria of voting for a candidate, keeping aside religion & caste.
And not to forget, the history of Indian Politics is as important as the present, because whoever the MP, at the end of the day he will have to abide by what his Party believes in.
At the end of it all, it's a great gamble, let's see who wins on Saturday!
I agree with your criteria of electing your candidate...but tell me...is it really true that all the powerful leaders coming through are from the ground level? and are they really coming in on their performance. Your reply makes me feel glad, that there are people like me out there...maybe i am not so uncommon after all ;-)
ReplyDeleteTill next time...
Adios
You have very well brought out the views that dominate the minds of most of the youth of INDIA in the way our country is run and netas are chosen...
ReplyDeletebut i'd like to pose a few questions at this junction;
a) agreeing with the fact that only the powerful grow up to be the leaders of the country and not the youth; i'd simply like to ask of how many of the youth today have made that extra sincere and conscious effort to get down in the ring and fight out the match till the end? "Tum system ko badalna chaho to bhi system hi tumhe badal deti hain"? when do we expect to get rid of this notion?
b) recognising the fact that Indian politics is perhaps one of the most complicated of all social sciences; how many of the "youth" is game to be meticulously scrutinised by the media 24x7 who is always ready to dig out every insy winsy detail of their life; judge every deed; bloat the negatives at the slightest opportunities and have verdicts on their character been given on national television by people who may have never even met them?
c)with increasing globilisation and proportionate increase of the vision and ambition of the youth; how many of the Cambridge and Harvard returns want to come back to india and use their expertise in fields of economics finance or management for an honest job of running the country giving returns on their investments after a gestation period of a long as 5-7 years? further it is pertinent to question that; whatever be your degree practical knowledge and understanding of the "Indians" and dynamics of "India" would take at least a harsh 5 years or more??
is India shining? are rallies and loud slogans the end of the responsibility young Indian on the shoulders of whom the future of this beautiful motherland depends????
I'd like to give credit to the congress for getting re-elected and hope against my pessimistic hopes that we see the change we want to See.........