Right from
morning walk to late night table conference ,middle and upper
middle class is
engaged in criticizing the political leaders and political system. To scold
the
politician is non stop business. Despite of all this the system and politicians
behavior remains unchanged . why this is so ? Political parties and politicians
are
audacious about their position because they had assimilated the technique
of “wining
the election”. Some of the political parties are very much sure
about their win in any
type of election. They doesn’t care about peoples interest
except last 2/3 months prior
to the election.
One night prior to voting plays
the key role .In current political
scenario votes are not demanded , such thing
is past now . currently election becomes
‘‘vote buying and selling phenomenon
.” This is easily possible for political parties
since the percentage of voting
from Grampanchayat to loksabha is always around 50
percent only.
Fortunately the current decision of
supreme court of providing NATO (None Of
The Above ) is a boost to voters to
walk out to Booth for Voting. Off course it’s not a
full thing it’s just a
first step toward strengthening the democracy.
For low percentage in any election the
mindset of middle and upper middle class
is totally responsible. The keen
interest of this class is questionable as most of them
avoids voting. Their
argument is very much straight forward that “does my single vote
will matters?” “no sky falling will happen if I don’t exercise vote” and so on.
One thing is very much sure that in
democracy every single vote matters, several
such examples are there. Democracy
means “a government for the people , by the
people ,to the people .”
As usual government policy , this definition now a days
becomes the ‘frame on
wall’ . Now a days democracy becomes ‘money making
machinery for politician and have granting right to frame policies only for
those
peoples who exercise vote .’
More importantly, the politician now panders only to his vote bank (which to a
large
extent consists of slum dwellers, immigrants and other minorities not
representing the
interests of the nation at large) The lively example demonstrating are recent policies of
government like ‘street vendor policy’, extending limit for regularizing
zopadpatties
upto 2000 , food policy etc
… ya !!! if humanity is root behind this then the question
remains unanswerable
that why about 80 thousand housing societies
are pending for
registration for decades together? In spite of paying lakhs and
crores of ruppes for flats
the buyer doesn’t have right on plot , which is
automateically rendered to zopadpatties
by a single law. But the legal flat holders have to run from pillar to
post several times .
one and only one reason behind this is that this class is
not a ‘voter class’, nothing else.
As said above governments current policy
panders only to their vote bank. If all flat
owners in Maharashtra beelines in
upcoming election the day is not far that a single line
law stating all current
building will turn into societies from so and so date will definitely
not remains the nightmare .
One has a right to complain only if we have done something,
participated, been the
change we want to see. If we want our elected
representatives to be accountable and
answerable then we too have to be a part
of the process, and be accountable ourselves,
don't you agree? Well, the first
step begins with registering as an eligible voter. Election
commission had
launched the program for registration as a voter. Any one who
becomes 18 years
on 1 jan 2014 can register his/her name . All details are available on
website(www.ceo.maharashtra.gov.in).
Especially youngsters must came forward as
they have long way ahead.
A sensitive citizen will definitely get disturbed
by the present scenario in the
country?
A state where nothing seems to work, ballooning inflation, increasing
crime-
rates, almost absent law and order, the poor getting poorer, the good
behind bars, the
guilty roaming free ! Rape on ¾ years girl to old age women
becomes the default news
of day.
Problems are there for last 66 years of
independence. Basic needs like food , water
,shelter is still nightmare for
more than half population. Education turns to business
instead of service . In
country heading towards ‘mahasatta ’ people have to rely on
tanker for drinking
water. Promises remaining just promises, public servants
hoodwinking the
public! This is there after 6 decades of independence as “We have
been spectators
for long time”. Political parties taken as a granted some part of society
as
they doesn’t vote. This scenario will definitely going to change if every
sensible
citizen will queue up for voting. Some of them beeline for voting but
found that their
name missing from list. To avoid such thing one has to ensure
name in list prior to 17th
oct.
Media is referred as a fourth pillar of
democracy so media has to play vital role in
spreading awareness about the importance of voting in our society,
especially amongst
the youth, and thereby developing a sense of responsibility
towards one's country.
The election commission functioning
also responsible for decline in voting
percentage. Crores of rupees are incurred for photo
electoral ID from Mr, sheshan’s
era but still there are several dispute for
this ID. The deletion of names from voters list
takes place abruptly . The need
of hour is to brought under telescope the overall
functioning of election
comission. Because of short period it might be difficult for
election
commission to prepare photo updated electoral roll, in that case aadhar
identity
can be used.
Every citizen have a dreams of “corruption free developed India”. This
will be
fulfilled only if every one of us shows' alertness and participation in the various
processes
of democracy. One thing is very much sure that with the increase in voting
percentage the impact of voters who vote for only “Mahatma ”(on currency) will
be
nullified as well as the chance of
getting elected of wrong person get reduced. To
remove hand from gloves
and vote in election will be win -win position for democracy.
To vote in every upcoming election is the one
of the best and fair way to start with.
While exercising the vote the biasing criteria
like religion , castes, party ,region
should
be overruled. Only exercise the vote is not important but to exercise it
to proper
candidate is more important. BE
A SHIVAJI AND DON’T WAIT FOR BIRTH OF
SHIVAJI IN NEIGHBORERS .
Based on data released by the Election
Commission of India. In the 2009 general
election, the Indian electorate was
estimated to total approximately 714 million
individuals, out of whom around 415
million actually cast a vote. Every
citizen of India
must vote in every election to built BETTER INDIA .
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