When each and every one is saying things and giving their views about the current election campaigns and our future PRIME MINISTER , and INDIA’s future , what I can listen are VOICES – loud , secular , mature , amateurish , experienced , silent and many more .
Why everyone suddenly became interested about these ELECTIONS ?? Is it some bollywood masala movie going on ?? If its a movie than I am not able to figure out who the villains or heroes are . When I read stuff in newspaper , which actually are filled with election related gossips , I am not able to see MY INDIA and all its people developing as a whole . Every now and then I find out some or the other sections of society unsatisfied with the government ( current / future ) .
What I feel is people are just saying things , commenting on candidates and giving their views just for sake of doing it and no body actually know what exactly they want and HOW exactly they can get it . When a middle class working professional is asked to debate on the current problems INDIA is facing , he/she will with facts and stats name things like POVERTY , OVERPOPULATION , INFLATION and so on . But none of those issues has ever affected him/her in his/her entire life . He /She has always heard of poverty but never felt what exactly it is because their parents have fed them and brought them up giving them all necessary things required for a good upbringing. So when they vote keeping these things in mind they just vote by stats and facts which may / may not have been manipulated .
If you ask a poor who is unable to get proper shelter , food and education they will name these issues as the current problems . Now the problem comes so as to who they should vote . They by their own experience know that their family’s living condition have not changed in the last so many generations and they know that who ever they will vote , that candidate can not just do some magic trick and solve all their problems . So when they vote they just listen to the wise in their locality or society or city .
So my question is do we really vote because we want to bring some change in the lives of all the citizens living in INDIA ?? Do each and every citizen of INDIA really feels the pain and problems other sections of society are facing ?? Do we connect with the problems of HINDUS and MUSLIMS living in JAMMU AND KASHMIR ?? DO we connect with the people killed in ASSAM in a militant attack ?? Do we connect to all the poor living across the country who do not have enough to get three meals a day ?? Do we connect with women who live in fear and get humiliated by the male dominant society ?? Do we connect with children who cannot get education and who see their future heading towards darkness ??
I think WE DO NOT
So why shout so much ?? Why criticize so much ?? Why to play the blame game ??
I believe that INDIA has everything which can make it one of the most developed and powerful country in the whole world , in any sector you talk . But if there is anything which is stopping us to grow it is we THE CITIZENS OF INDIA . The day we start feeling the responsibility towards each and every citizen and also towards the development of OUR INDIA things will change . NO politician , industrialist , country , terrorist can decide INDIA ‘s fate .
If anyone can do that it is us….
PAKHANDI PANDIT 007 