Saturday, May 23, 2009

who's right and who's wrong

23rd may 2009


on the 23rd of April ,i was sleeping past 12 noon.no, i wasn't in bed. i was sleeping because i wasn't at the polling station. a lot of my friends made fun of each other based on the little TV ad in which a guy is serving tea to people on election day so as to 'wake them up' while i wondered how could the elections effect my life. i asked myself what good can come from voting for some sardar who did nothing when terrorists were touring like a rock band through the big cities of our country or for some 76 year old who advertises for himself on face book but promises different things to people of different religion or some third party leader who got an engineer killed for a birthday bash.......


the big question is not why to choose or how to choose but who to choose. from a layman's view there is not one person in the country on whom we can rely and say that we trust him/her with our money and our vote. we have a tendulkar in sports , a rahman in music, people like swaminathan and apj abdul kalaam in science; why not a world class leader in the government? right now its not about choosing the right guy, it's about rejecting the bigger criminal. these were the thoughts running through my head a month ago.


yesterday i was watching the swearing in ceremony and i noticed the average age of the cabinet members was about 68 years ......and i started thinking again.....every government official retires at sixty but the govt is itself seventy years old. doesn't the old law apply here? issues like these make us question our own claim to be the most successful democracy in the world.


then why should we vote? and the answer is quite simple ....we should vote because we ourselves should not be guilty of neglecting our constitutional duty- the same thing we accuse our leaders of.maybe such a situation would never have aroused if we were more responsible in the first place.so if u thought your vote didn't matter , think again.