Thursday, April 10, 2014

Happy Voting!

Alas! I am out of those vociferous political chants, they call those as party songs!
A day prior to the elections, I flipped over the FM stations one after other hoping to get rid of Modi’s apotheosises, Kejriwal’s heart-drowning speech and Congress’ vane effort to save its name.
In my political book in school, I read that in any area campaigning must stop a week prior to the day of voting in that area. It was right, I didn’t see any political leader on road begging for votes, with a smile on face and lust for power at heart. But what about these radio ads which torture you like anything and eventually, reside in your mind a dilemma on whom to vote.
In this long run of elections in the capital, where campaigning is a sacred moto of the political parties, people tend to change their views as they listen, hear or read about such parties and charge themselves so much that all other parties seem to be traitors of the country.
Totally awaken, this political season of Lok sabha Elections, where the People are about to choose their PM (ooh, sorry it’s opposite, MP), I decided to break into every kind of voter and supporter this season and found some with a mixture of pulchritude, predilection and indifference.

1.       Modi Lovers: Undoubtedly, this man, Narendra Singh Modi, has got more followers than the Indra god and why not, having given the name, NAMO, similar to that of the Hindu Maha-God, Shiva ‘Om Namah Shivae’, Modi has been a one man army.
The cab driver who drops me to the office in the morning belongs to this category.
‘Sir! Whom would you vote? AAP or Modi?’ he asked. Public knew there was a party called BJP, today Modi in himself is a party.
Unfortunately, before I answered, I asked him for his favourite candidate? His love for Modi overflowed and I had to listen to a live Modi campaign for the next half an hour till I reached office.

2.       ‘AAP hi ho, bass AAP hi ho’ Singers: ‘It’s the time for an Aam Admi to come to action again! So what if he left earlier, he did that on his principles’ said a friend of mine. Impressed by Kejriwal’s strong profile and art of public speaking. Whatever he is, he has something in him that has overthrown the long reign of Congress in Delhi! He has a mixture of supporters and haters!

3.       Congress, too old to race! : Congress is the most silent one this time. They are too busy in Women Empowerment that they forgot that they have to campaign this season.
‘Congress is not campaigning this time! It will lower its chances!’ said a colleague of mine!
‘Since they know that their chances of winning are low, they are not campaigning’ my Manager corrected.

4.       ‘My vote to Daddu Bhaiya!’: The rickshaw wala who belongs to Bangladesh, but still holds a voter id card said so! Daddu Bhaiya, though holds some criminal cases against him, is the voter id god to him. Daddu, but gave him job by helping him in hiring a rickshaw for Rs. 100 less a month. Excuse me! Is someone there who offers citizenship of USA?

5.       ‘All corrupt, vote for anyone’: Businessman who don’t trust any political party, but still consider voting as their prerogative right say so. No political party can provide them with rebate from Income tax, all matters for them are numbers.

6.       ‘India is not a Democratic country!’: Denying the dangling fact that India is a Democratic Republic, there are people who have many other important works than voting in their non-democratic country.
‘I have not voted ever in my life, nor do I want to in this non democratic country’ said a 36 years old. He is an IIM Alumni and currently works as a lecturer in country’s reputable university.

Whom shall I be like? Or who amongst the above are you?
Be anyone, but the last one. Go on! Vote this political season. If nothing then atleast hold a right to curse the political parties in the future, which you lose if you don’t vote.

Happy Voting!
Cheers!

N!K