Voting percentage has always been the major challenge for all democratic nations.
Actual Scenario: You have a class of 10 students. It is told your duty is to vote one person among the 2 or 3 who represents himself/herself to be the leader of the group. Only 4 of them cast their votes and the leader is chosen.
My perception: This is not what we mean by being democratic when we choose our leaders.
A leader is a person, very much from the group, and among the group, who is unanimously chosen by everyone to represent them.
We often complain that our mighty politicians are not doing their job properly, and we always end up throwing all the blame on them. No. I am not denying that completely. But i just think that we need to accomplish our duty first, before we complain.
What we usually witness is the fact that a majority of people, who are stated to be living below the poverty line, get attracted by the campaigns that the political parties conduct, and innocently cast their votes with smiles on their faces. Boy. You should see the beautiful smile that comes to people and how proud they are, when show the nail of the index finger, painted in blue.
Oh come on. I would say that this blind belief is much much better than the lazy educated people who s(h)it at home, watching the results of the same elections on the television channels with bloody attractive newsreaders. (Am not blaming them. They are doing their job).
Just look at the pathetic state of the educated and lazy people who are into a perception that voting never really matters in any form to choose a leader for them.
These jerks are taught about all these basic things when they are in schools. They talk about politics. They praise, they scold (which happens the most), they fight with words, they watch all these people who fight with words, but they won't vote !!!!
Why cannot we have a rule which goes something like,
Your citizenship for this country holds valid only if you vote (unless you stay outside your country). Or may be the fact that your citizenship gets renewed or something, when you vote.
You can vote anywhere in your country.
I certainly doubt if this is available on the books. Our duty as citizens of a nation:
- I have to vote.
- I have to make sure that the members of my family and my society also cast their votes.
2 comments:
Democracy as such is the most promising way of Governance...but as rightly put here, it can be a huge disaster if we('THE PEOPLE') do not do our duties properly and exercise our rights ...
But who knows what are our rights, what are our duties....
Actually this reminds me a scene from 'Rang De Basanti'...where Actor Siddharth says 'Somehow get outa here to US..tats all..this place will never get better'...To be frank, somewhere each of us has same feeling. Who takes pain to clean up their own house. We do not understand that US is 'The US' because people there chose to shape their future.
As is applicable for a person, so for a nation... What matters is your attitude. Now you choose...
I agree with what you said. But honestly, I feel its not really going to work unless someone takes lead and emerges to be a politician to vote for who can offer some change, hope and deliver results ( no, I am not talking about drastic change or 'Indian Obama', I want to see some change at the local level to start with). For example, take the case of TN, is there anybody outside the 'Kazhagams' who can do a promising role? Its either going to be one of them ( u know who i mean). Although we are proud to be a democratic nation, we have messed it up so much that nobody seems to want to enter politics to do something good.
But as rightly put here, everyone must exercise their vote no matter what it is.
-Girish
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