If you have voted today, hats off to you!! Thank you for acting as a responsible citizen! If you haven’t, read on.
So, how many times have you said the clichéd statements of “arey..is desh ka to kuch nahi hoga”. Or, “chalta hai re…”? Unfortunately, I’m going to write exactly what comes to my mind, and this is uncensored.
I was on the way back home and I heard that only 40% of the population had turned up at the voting polls. Our so called “developed” state had a lower turn out than Arunachal, a state that is considered small and of not too much consequence. “I was at work” is not an acceptable excuse! It was an off, with multiplexes and all other sources of entertainment shut. So, boy oh boy, wasn’t it a perfect opportunity to laze around at home! Well, that’s definitely what it looks like!
Well, we DARE NOT complain about how Pune’s potholes make you feel like you are in hell or about how our government is corrupt – because we don’t deserve to talk about it. If we are too busy to spare time to have our country running, I wonder what could be more important!
I spoke to one of my friends who said that there were 13 people at the polling booth. Most of them were “aathvi paas” and only one chap was a B.Com. (my friend was shocked when she heard that he was a B com grad!) And for all you know, half of them had been bribed to vote for some nasty candidate.
Anyway, this piece of news ruined my day… I can’t wait for the time I get to vote and act responsible.
This also raises a major question for us – Do we deserve to be a democracy or do we deserve to be ruled over?
So, how many times have you said the clichéd statements of “arey..is desh ka to kuch nahi hoga”. Or, “chalta hai re…”? Unfortunately, I’m going to write exactly what comes to my mind, and this is uncensored.
I was on the way back home and I heard that only 40% of the population had turned up at the voting polls. Our so called “developed” state had a lower turn out than Arunachal, a state that is considered small and of not too much consequence. “I was at work” is not an acceptable excuse! It was an off, with multiplexes and all other sources of entertainment shut. So, boy oh boy, wasn’t it a perfect opportunity to laze around at home! Well, that’s definitely what it looks like!
Well, we DARE NOT complain about how Pune’s potholes make you feel like you are in hell or about how our government is corrupt – because we don’t deserve to talk about it. If we are too busy to spare time to have our country running, I wonder what could be more important!
I spoke to one of my friends who said that there were 13 people at the polling booth. Most of them were “aathvi paas” and only one chap was a B.Com. (my friend was shocked when she heard that he was a B com grad!) And for all you know, half of them had been bribed to vote for some nasty candidate.
Anyway, this piece of news ruined my day… I can’t wait for the time I get to vote and act responsible.
This also raises a major question for us – Do we deserve to be a democracy or do we deserve to be ruled over?
