Voting

People have inculcated the bad habit of misconstruing everything a politician does. In a democracy, people have a constitutional duty to exercise their franchise - even if it means choosing the best of the worst candidates.

After weeks of promising the moon, on the polling eve, politicians provide masses what is required to keep them in high spirits. In order to ensure that people perform their duty, politicians spend a lot on incentives. On polling day, they provide vehicles to facilitate people coming to polling booth to discharge their duty. They tell you on what symbol to vote. All this is often misconstrued as bribing. No one has understood that it is a part of the process of educating the voter. Every voter has to go to poling booth and cast his/her vote. Invariably, more than half the voters do not do so. They would rather relax and enjoy the extra holiday declared under Negotiable Instruments Act. What will the rest of the world think about India? What message are we sending out to the world watching the spectacle of Polls in the world’s biggest democracy? What value system are we inculcating in the younger generation? Is it wrong on the part of politicians to try salvaging some prestige for the country? In order to save country’s image, our politicians send all their loyalists to booth to ensure 110% voting.