i want

the elections are over. the drama, high fever, the razzmatazz and the hollow promises have gone by. the actors have done their part and some of them have been awarded with a chance to change the way we take our country ahead. the spending for success to win a seat in parliament has collectively touched above extraordinary limits. have we wondered where this kind of money is generated from and why are we not raising our voices against this kind of monstrous wastage of money.

the cost of elections to the public for elections in 1999 was 888 crore and above 1000 crore in 2004. we are still to receive the audited reports of the cost of election 2009. consider this amount from the amount spent in 1967 which was just 1.80 crores. and surely we can all scratch our heads as to where this is all leading to.

an interesting aspect of the election 2009 was that most of the candidates were not talking about the global recession or the spiralling interest rates, the race to survive by our country men...none of these were spoken about at the high pitched speeches across india. what was spoken was a dialect in hate politics. candidates washing each others dirty linen in public. the power wrestle was pathetic and some of us must have also laughed at the way these people went about the campaign. The same jokers who stalled the parliament on the issue of the Nuclear deal seemed to have completely forgotten about it at the election.

The power situation, global warming, water shortage, the market trends...none of these took importance. What took importance was the CPM candidate bad mouthing the Janata Dal...the congress teasing the inparty fight of the CPM. and the CPM taking pot shots at each other.

In the end however the public shouted back at all these jokers. I for one believe that most of us used our brains before voting. may the best man win. and now i pray that some sanity will prevail and good governance can be a hope. maybe i am speaking too soon. 

Jai Hind