On the eve of General Elections 2009

Merinews, April 11, 2009

The whole political system is corrupt and is taking the country to the dogs. There is no will to eradicate poverty, putting a genuine stop to dowry system and challenging human trafficking among other obnoxious things that the country puts up with..

WHO WILL win the general elections 2009 and enjoy the divine divan of Delhi? – The question is really a twister. TV channels telecast live confessions and confrontations of the heavyweights in Indian politics. And the analysis and debates are in full swing.


Still exhausted people, having finished their everyday work, watch TV and swallow the politicians' vociferous volitions in a spell of complete enchantment. They soon drift away from the unbearable starvation in Kalahandi in Orissa or hazards that may be brought about with the amassing of nuclear weapons.


The whole political system is corrupt and is taking the country to the dogs. There is no will to eradicate poverty, putting a genuine stop to the dowry system and challenging human trafficking among other obnoxious things that the country puts up with.


The recent show of the shoe, added ginger to the poll porridge and everything went against the Congress leaders. The Sikh rose and helped the opposition rise. And they have proved they have not yet forgotten the anti-Sikh riots in 1984. The clean chit against Congressman Tytler has turned the serene Sikh into a mutinous mob. A few days ago, Govinda was seen giving away hard cash to the poorest of the poor. In West Bengal, the distribution of cheques carried out in the name of Amitava Nandi put a stigma on the CPI (M). It added salt to the injury in Nandigram.


It became an absurdly gawky affair, when everybody saw India cross the nuclear Rubicon. The shopping-malls, resplendent with jingling of coins and fluttering of dollars, will not be taking place if the economically eroded rooms by the have-nots of Indian villages remain half-fed. The trains bound for Bongaon from Sealdah and vice versa remain jam-packed. Though, when the sun is down, the neon-dazzled shopping-malls glitter. The villages come up with a contrasting dream.

India is neither a canteen nor a fish market, nor is she a stock of mock-modesty. Indians would better engage their logical brains with mind as a subsidiary part to vote in a new government. A government, which is accountable for the alarming unemployment problem thanks to their abject failure to put the development programmes into practical effect, is a government of no use. Indians should not at all forget the truth that half a million people lost their jobs in India in four months (ended December 2008) due to the economic slowdown.

Who will win the general elections 2009 and enjoy the divine divan of Delhi? The question may be followed by an answer like this: “Ye Dilli hai mere yaar...!”(this is Delhi my friend.)