V for victory and vote
Now a days I am very
much drenched into political discussions, my mind heats up thinking about
democracy and politics. Where are we, why are we like this? I know that each
and every individual is part and parcel of the society and politicians are born
from the common society, but we feel that politicians are from extra
terrestrial organsims. Are they born with different group of blood, no they
were born from the same mother India as we did.
But why are we so annoyed of this system, after all we manufactured this
system, hence we should solve the bugs or we should be suffered the after
effects.
Initially when I
started to think along this thread, I was landed on one question, which is whom
should I vote for? For me this is a big question, though I know one answer that
we should vote for good person. But who is good and who is bad. After all we
are deceived by our friends and relatives, don’t the unknown leader whom we
don’t know much will deceive us. However friends who backstabbed us will be
found guilty after few days, and we can teach them a lesson. But leaders who
won elections will be deceiving us for 5 long years and it is irreversible
reaction.
So how should I
identify the leader is good or bad, is it based on his political party? If I
say so, then I will be laughed at myself, because no party is permanent for any
individual. And no party has permanent principles for ever. Especially in state
and central many leaders have jumped from one party to other, it is for their
own political and personal gains. Other
question is no party in our country is full of good people. At this moment in
our society goodness is been measured as per the criminal charges on the
particular candidates. In that case no political party is having leaders with
0% criminal charges. So another question arises here, does the presence of one
good guy makes the party good, or the presence of one bad guy makes the party
bad. However everyone has evilness inside, but the people are determine goodness
based on the percentage of evil being masked. Hence I don’t believe just based
on party or one individual in a party can decide to whom I should vote
for.
Then what should I
depend on, is it based on caste, creed, region and religion. If they are so
important and beneficial to rely then by now our country should be developed
because till now we are on the boat of this system. People are always fighting
for reservations of their own caste, and special benefits for their own creeds.
But they are not fighting for good governance. They are not fighting for a
system which will move the file without spending single penny from their
pocket; they are not fighting for a system to give the correct justice in short
time. Our country is in slow pace as our
judicial system.
Is government not
spending enough money for development, who told that they are not spending?
They are spending but it is being wasted. I recently read a statement from
pamphlet distributed by one of the visiting professor in our campus Prof.
Nageswarrao (who is contesting elections from malkajgiri MP) that 40% of drinking water is being
wasted because of leakage. That means
government is spending money, but it is being wasted by misgovernance. One
simple example I want to share you which was
given by my father. Consider any govt high school the minimum salary
paid to any high school teacher is 25000 which include all benefits, and for
the senior teachers they would even get more than 45000. Compare the salary of
teacher in private schools, I bet no school is giving such high salaries. But
does the standard of govt school students is same as private school students.
If it is equal, then why does’t the daughters and sons of govt school teacher
make them to study in govt schools. Why do they want to join them in private
schools? There lies the problem, people we are in the same society are not
strong willed to changed the system. Governament employes want some easy money.
What we could see is a misgovernance in common man, so as our government.
I was surprised to hear
some stats about politics, we know that Mumbai is urbanised than many cities
and towns in india. Do you know the polling percentage of Mumbai (55%), which
is far less than any small town in the country. What does that mean, is there
any misgovernance in the people. People who doest not vote have no right to
bark about problems. I was quite
surprise to hear some more facts, that Andhra Pradesh is leading state in
distributing money and liquor than any other state. Very shameful to hear this
stats, approximately 56% of all cash seizures are from AP and 80% of all liquor
seizures are from AP, which means 4.4 X
105 litres of liquor was
seized in our state compare to 5.6 X 105 litres seized from all over
India during elections. As we are in
such society we should suffer, we don’t have any right to ask our problems. Who
said humans are intelligent, I hate this statement. If we are so intelligent then
why do we sell our vote for money and liquor?
We in our society have
communal leaders, bust still preach about secularism. We have leaders who have great experience and
educational background, still take decisision with only the approval of
illiterate heads of their respective parties.
It all because we are not intelligent and we are being gambled at each
and every time during elections.
I was even surprised to
hear from various funding agencies of research like CSIR, DBT and UGC are lack
of funds. The reason is because of elections, how on earth do elections are
related to research. For heaven sake I don’t understand the relation, does that
mean the govt is using money from
funding agencies to organise other need full things. If so did’t they planned the budget.
After all a small family will allot some budget for each month and feature,
running such big organization don’t they have knowledge to maintain budget. I
was shock the CSIR has delayed SRF money for the elections, and I was even shocked
to hear that they are not releasing money for allotted projects because of
elections. Does they don’t have separate bodies to maintain the treasure.
It is the lack of this
governance we research scholars suffer for fellowships, suffer for consumables,
and suffer for results. Considering all I want a leader who will support good
governance, I don’t want leader who will give TVs and who will give laptops. I
want leader who has good governance, who can be reached at every time.
When I started writing
this article I don’t have clarity to whom I should vote, but slowly when I
start to write and think deeply, I understood that the leader who can give good
governance will be my leader. If I don’t
find any one, then I will vote for NOTA. If I don’t find any leader even in
next two elections, then I will become a leader and I will come to you to ask
for vote by showing the proposal just what we did for our PhD. I will plan the
budget and give work plan, which no leader and no party is dared to give. Wake up and vote for leader who is sensible
and also responsible too.
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