I Speak my mind

The insolent outcaste YES I DARE TO SAY IT, amidst all that motivating and   influential   "you should exercise your right to vote" election   motto. Yes I know......   it is a taboo to say that 'I don't want to vote' in a country where election is more of a trend. People will look down on you, you will be an outcast   in world's largest democracy. Everyone knows that they should vote, coz it is their duty, it is how common people shows the' governing system', who is in control? Or at least   thats what they want us to think. If you ask any single one of the voters 'why you really voted ?' except that, it is the duty to vote. How many would you think have real answer for that question? How many of the political parties have manifestos and even if parties publish their manifestos, how many of us read the manifestos ? And   how many among the read ask the question of, how the parties going to make the promises happen in real time?  ...

As Shri Anna ji's campaign against corruption is at its peak, people are starting to take sides, some back the campaign, but says shouldn't be like this there should be some other way, some says its perfect, to some, one shouldn't protest against parliament, which deteriorates common man's trust over the system. Whatever may be the truth, here i am going to mention a phrase which had been using for years by politicians, writers, social activists etc. whether it was in the context or out of it, is another matter. And that phrase is "We should use our power to vote" to fight off this corruption. But one thing they tend to forget is that our options are limited. We don't have a pool of candidates from which we can choose. Even if we have that pool is decided by the political parties. But now our biggest dilemma is that, they say Parliament is at the top but our problem is not with the parliament building, our dealings are with those MPs who had been elected ...