General assembly
elections-2014 is round the corner with the whole of India in anticipation of
what is next to come. Media speculations, party meeting, rallies, promises,
allegations, personal attacks, opinion polls, pre-poll alliances, etc. are happening
on a large scale across the country. This gives a feeling of festive mood or
rather say an Election Carnival.
For the first time ever
since independence, a citizen of India is feeling privileged, as a huge price
has being laid on his vote. Thanks to the changing political satire which has
given rise to a situation where every vote counts. A political revolution is
not far away and can be easily achieved but the only barrier to be removed is
the typical political attitude prevailing in our minds.
Frankly speaking, India
has no political creed. Our politicians follow a creed only if it feeds their
vested needs. Most of our politicians are power hungry. Traditionally by nature
Indians are Sun worshipers, as they profess to, or say invariably worshipers of
rising sun. Majority of people believe that politics is a game of wicked and
corrupt people, fighting for power and hence refrain themselves from it. We are
semi-literates and secure only surface knowledge yet profess to be well-versed
in politics. However our knowledge of politics doesn’t go beyond the dining
table. We
just harangue around and talk aloud our knowledge of politics and express our
political opinions based only on the knowledge we get from daily papers. Here again,
we neither buy the papers nor scan them thoroughly. We just skip over the news
and notes from borrowed papers and develop our own political opinions by the
stretch of imagination. Our public gets carried away even by an emotional
speech by any political leader. We blindly believe whatever our political
leader speaks, even without taking the slightest pain in verifying it or
finding the real truth. We Indians, for decades, have been crow-worshipers. We
believe in blind following of the political hero, until we find a new one to
adhere to.
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Speaking of our politicians, we all know we Indians
by nature are money-minded. He just thinks of his personal profits and benefits
that he would get, if he joins a political group. Today deny an aspirant a
ticket to the Municipality, a Corporation, an Assembly or the Parliament and
he goes off the party, after finding a number of faults in the party of which
he was admirer of a few days earlier. Deny him from giving a ministry in the state or centre
and he switches off to some other party. All this has resulted in breaking up
of many political parties and formation of new small regional parties making
our political system more complex. This all goes to prove that we as
individuals lack political thinking.
We have many political parties some claim to be
communal while some are believed to be secular. We also have communist minded group
and also a socialist group, who claim to have a mixed ideology. Something of
Socialism, something of Communism, but nothing of nationalism sums up their
political thinking. We too have regional political parties, many of them
fighting internally for their existence. We lack the presence of a strong
opposition party. The party in power would work only as much as the opposition
forces it to. What we actually need is just two political groups, a party in
power and a party in opposition.
The general assembly elections-2014 will not only
be a test for political parties but also it will be a test of each and every
individual of India. It will be a test of his political thinking, observation,
understanding and research. It will be a test of his right to vote, in a
country with the world’s largest democracy.
NOTE: This is my
personal point of view and opinion based on my observation and research. It has
nothing to do with any past, present or future of any political party or
individual. The aim of posting this is just to share my view.
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