With countless campaigns highlighting only the achievements of that particular government,taking a dig at the opposition at every single chance,backstabbing everybody,joining hands with people you hated just before the campaigns and the usual hogwash of the promised change that will turn India on its head,the ELECTIONS in India is finally over.
Why put ELECTIONS in caps,you may ask.Simply put, elections in India is a huge huge affair.Not only because of the mind boggling number of people who come to vote in the hope that may be this time around they will see some change(which incidentally happens to be every time) but also the amount of money spent in campaigns is something that if accounted will make our heads spin faster than the earth revolves on its axis.
So with the EC coming down hard on sops this time,it remains to be seen whether people will want a change or prefer to tread the same path.The corruption that exists during the elections,especially offering money to make people vote makes me so sick that I literally want to throw up.Where the bloody hell is democracy?What happened to the good old times(very few incidentally) when people voted a candidate not because he can provide something that serves a short purpose but rather because they wanted something that will make their living standards better forever.
I specifically want to discuss the money distribution for voters.Now why is the candidate so desperate to win?Is he so inclined to serve people that he will do anything in his capacity to get elected?Will he make people's life a haven after he is elected?.NO.NO.NO is the answer to all three.If such a guy comes to power,rest assured, his first job will be to open a Swiss bank account so that he can hoard his assets.Bull shit is what he is feeding to the hapless people making them believe he is the next messiah.Oh God! I just want to tear my hair and bang myself into a solid concrete wall.Such things make me so mad.Maybe I am a bit sensitive to corruption or maybe I just grew up that way.But all added up,all this big festival is just a facade to secure the next five years for many.After the elections,the motto towards people is ROT IN HELL.I am not vindicating everybody elected but a large number of them sure do want to win for their own purposes.
Are we going to get a party that will work with an open mind and understand what the people really want instead of making the first point of their agenda is to hit back at the opposition with crap talk.As it has been said,opposition is a necessary evil because without it there would be no checkpoints.
Is the change we have hoped finally coming?Lets cross our fingers and hope.
