And Mayawati shocked all those thick skinned & shockproof politicians form gully to Delhi by winning with simple majority conquering the biggest state. All, of a sudden, every soul got enlightened on how Mayawati was already a great woman, done social engineering, apt CM material, strong contender to be PM etc. etc. At the same time, they have kept the other issues in the back of their dumb head like her erstwhile Taj Corridor Project, amassing of wealth disproportionate to her known source of income, transfers etc.etc.
The same phenomenon occurs with 220 volts to 440 volts shock intensity; sometimes the political grounds shiver & sometimes there is politico-earthquake too. Be it Sharad Pawar, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Nitish Kumar, Karunanidhi, Jaylalitha, Mamta Banarjee, Shibu Soren or our own beloved Raja Bhaiya, Amarmani Tripathi or like have done it time & again. Anybody in the independent India has right to float his or her own political party. Thus it is nightmarish experience to the election commission on issuing polling symbols to all those trivial parties which varies from bell to box & chair to chalk.
Being infamous, criminal with their records of kidnapping, looting, killing, intimidating, anti national activities are the passport to the politics. They all talk in front of TV camera & in news paper of how bad it is of criminalization of politics yet; the dinner party host that night will be the same character befitting such description. And, we the voters; like fool either skip the voting or vote meekly to the same fellow pulling skin over our open eyes. Look at the voting percentage of 35% to 51% the maximum. We simply need a known face to cast our filthy vote be it famous or infamous face. Perhaps our darling is infamous face that is the reason poor Manmohan Singh never managed to enter parliament through front door. Why on earth rest other public not going to polling booth to cast their vote? Are they sick, not able to travel to the polling station, hospitalized, their names do not appear in the polling lists, traveled out being government holiday,…?
Remember the last horse trading in your respective municipality, state capital & at the national capital. It is no less than a lottery winning experience to an independent candidate to win. Since, now days parties outnumber the number of seats available in the election. It is not only a hidden fact but the open issue that we the voters do not at all vote out or vote in the desired candidate. In hung house it is far from our desire on who to become the leader of the respective house. It is still far from our desire on candidate to get deserving portfolio to make justice to his skill & serves the land.
And seen those festivities of incumbent on completion of their first year in office, 2nd, 3rd etc. is it achievement to remain in office for having elected to be in office for full term of five years?
There won’t be right answers, easy answers & prompt answers to these questions. Yet, we can get closer to the answers over a period of time. Perhaps few of the answers might be like –
Introduction of two party political systems.
As such if you see the NDA & UPA loosely tied with their MAP the minimum action programme. It is loud & clear to every living citizen that it is power that holds them together. They might tie up in one state or at the national level. But, at small municipalities they might sit in opposition while tying up with the rival there. It is the politics of opportunity. Yet, they can tie up at every small or big opportunity of sharing power. Doing so, their views, ideas, ideals, dogmas, values, principals etc. etc. do not interfere they just do it for the sake of ‘national interest’. Any takers for such easy bending national interests? Thus with proper referendum it is possible to introduce two party political system. If the president of the land is saying so, it clearly means there is need for this.
Collection of election fund.
Just make election funding system by all the small & big parties clear & transparent. Let all of our donors become fearless, let the government announce tax benefits on election funding up to certain period & amount. See there will sea change in whole gamut of corruption. Whilst announcing tax soap will only make a large sum of money become milky white. It is possible.
If, we the people of India get up flex our muscles towards pushing up these reforms through the press; see where we’ll see ourselves within a decade.
By,
Vijay Yelmelwar
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