A Cliched Process

The act of suffrage, for many a long fought or a won-over privilege, as far as i am concerned, has lost its value. Gone are the days when the system was considered honorary, and a bestowed franchise on the citizens of a state, as the privilege is exercised equally, not being influenced by social diversity. Today, the exercise of suffrage is more or less a casual act as visiting a pub or a movie-theatre. The voters have lost sense of the right that they have been provided with and only think of monetary compromises at the time of exercising their mandate. Not all the wrong rests with the voters and the franchisers take up a prominent part in the blame-game. On the part of the voters, it is sheer indifference that has led them to hanker after the freebies and currency countermanding of their franchise. The elected show an uninterested attitude towards service to society and uplifting the poor. They are obdurate, callous and unmindful of the voters. They set their minds on only two things: money and cynosure. When it comes to facing elections, they unleash the arrogant power of money and extortion and try to bully the process of getting re-elected. In the recent Assembly elections to the state assembly of Tamilnadu, around twenty-four thousand people have exercised the option of not liking any candidate who contest in the election from a constituency. It means roughly, there are one hundred people in a constituency in the state of Tamilnadu who do not prefer to give the mandate to any of the contesting candidates. The elected never care to improve the basic infrastructural facilities. The free-noon-meal tenements are dilapidating and the rulers of the future are left to lurch in them. Many promises are given at the time of elections and they are immediately forgotten. The poor stay poor and the rich grow to a richer state, widening the gap between them, and also between togetherness, equality and harmony. India try to balance between people, who are inexhaustible with the liking for Cricket matches and spend a lot of money to get entertained and inexhaustible with the energy in search for staple food at least once a day. Only here, that the granary could feed rodents and reptiles and ignore the biped sapiens. Only here that tens and thousands of rupees is spent in deciding the winners of cricket matches and nothing to mend the hovels of the poor. India live up to its cliched definition of 'unity in diversity' in all walks of life.