Lok Sabha elections are coming
up. Exiting times. I, like most of the readers of this post, have made my mind
up as to who I would like to see lead the current. I am a semi-informed
electorate, thanks to the media and am easily swayed by the populist propaganda
of the various political entities and their allies in the media.
I personally like the loud ones,
the ones with trigger happy tongues, the ones for whom I can genuinely feel
sorry for. I really don’t care how the next five years for the nation are going to
be or how will our standings be in 2019 in the various world indices, for I
only care about how close my predictions get so that I can boast about it. I
wonder if bookies are interested in elections as well, because if they are,
many of us can be rich men.
What I love about our elections
is that the parties contesting elections, like to keep their manifestos closed
to their chest. They never tell us what they intend to do once they are in
power, how, and what groundwork they have done to achieve that. Plus the
mathematics, the probability, the uncertainty, the permutation and combination
to reach a number, I must say, it is kinda’ hot. Elections are just the appetizer,
the mouth-watering main-course is the post result ceremonial formation of the
most unlikely alliances and coalitions. I as a spectator jump on my seat
spilling the popcorn tub all over the next guy’s back and scream to myself, ”Oh
boy, not him.” The dessert doesn’t come
until before the next general elections when the ruling party is desperate and
starts giving away sops. YippeeJ
right?
I admire it when the contenders
shy away eloquently from stating their stand on higher education, taxation
policies, debt ceiling and other such subtle but critical concepts. The media
doesn’t care and the responsible ones are far too less watched to care. Print
media is on its way to dumps and the digital media too is not entirely fair.
The social media is dynamic but leaves out room for too many vague conspiracy
theorists.
Honestly, it doesn’t really
bother me. Politics serves me as a sports interest, thoroughly entertaining, has
the x-factor and at the end of the day, I go to my bed unperturbed by the form,
or the performance of my favourite team or who the signed players are for the
current season or the next one. It doesn’t bother me because I know and have
seen things and learnt to keep my expectations in check. I am a middle class
person and realize that inflation is inevitable, it would be unfair of me to
demand gas at a price that I used to pay the previous year. Since I am a middle
class man, I won’t pay taxes, for I know they only go for the oversized fish. Change
too is inevitable. So many countries had cool stuff like missiles, liberalization
policies, metro trains, naval carriers, etc. it was only a matter of time that
we had them too, it’s only coincidental that we know a Kalam or a Manmohan Singh
and their legacies. Good things more than bad, are going to happen, the market
won’t let us deviate. Someone or other will be the face of the change and enjoy
the stardom of his legacy.The leader of this nation only needs to do one
thing, not to screw up. He needs to follow the trend and make sure he isn’t too
behind four or five countries. For better, we need to have a Sachin Tendulkar
in Politics too.
