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Its election time and the atmosphere is ripe with questions like "who are the candidates?", "which candidate to vote for?", "which party to vote for?" and cynical statements like "all are equally bad", "nothing is going to change" etc.etc. Added to all these, traffic jams due to political rallies, haphazardly pasted posters and banners throughout the city and chaotic law and order situation.
Political parties will do their electoral maths and field candidates based on caste, creed, religion and ethnicity irrespective of their leadership quality and ability to bring about any change that will make life easier for the people. All that the candidates do is "promise" the moon.
Ironically, all political parties share one common vision. Win the election and make money.
This kind of thinking does not inspire me to vote. Its like appointing a person to run my company based on his/her promises to grow my business 10 folds. So, I would like to alter my thinking and see what difference can it make. To start with, I want to ask myself a question - What change do I want?
Here are a few of my small basic desires as an urban citizen of Karnataka :
- Clean and Safe Drinking Water
- Restore lakes
- Stop illegal constructions
- Clean and mosquito free environment
- Uninterrupted Power supply 24 x 7
- Pothole free roads
- Safe roads and efficient traffic management
- Crime and corruption free environment
- Quality education
- Quality healthcare at an affordable cost (especially for our elderly citizens)
- Decrease in tax rates, efficient enforcement of tax laws to deter tax evasion without any harassment.
I would like the candidates/parties to put forward their "plan" to fulfill these desires. Whose ever plan I find most convincing, my vote will go to him/her.
Candidates, you need to convince me with your PLANS not with your promises. After all, my vote is my trust and you can't win my trust on empty promises. Get that?
So, go ahead. Convince me. I am listening.
Its election time and the atmosphere is ripe with questions like "who are the candidates?", "which candidate to vote for?", "which party to vote for?" and cynical statements like "all are equally bad", "nothing is going to change" etc.etc. Added to all these, traffic jams due to political rallies, haphazardly pasted posters and banners throughout the city and chaotic law and order situation.
Political parties will do their electoral maths and field candidates based on caste, creed, religion and ethnicity irrespective of their leadership quality and ability to bring about any change that will make life easier for the people. All that the candidates do is "promise" the moon.
Ironically, all political parties share one common vision. Win the election and make money.
This kind of thinking does not inspire me to vote. Its like appointing a person to run my company based on his/her promises to grow my business 10 folds. So, I would like to alter my thinking and see what difference can it make. To start with, I want to ask myself a question - What change do I want?
Here are a few of my small basic desires as an urban citizen of Karnataka :
- Clean and Safe Drinking Water
- Restore lakes
- Stop illegal constructions
- Clean and mosquito free environment
- Uninterrupted Power supply 24 x 7
- Pothole free roads
- Safe roads and efficient traffic management
- Crime and corruption free environment
- Quality education
- Quality healthcare at an affordable cost (especially for our elderly citizens)
- Decrease in tax rates, efficient enforcement of tax laws to deter tax evasion without any harassment.
I would like the candidates/parties to put forward their "plan" to fulfill these desires. Whose ever plan I find most convincing, my vote will go to him/her.
Candidates, you need to convince me with your PLANS not with your promises. After all, my vote is my trust and you can't win my trust on empty promises. Get that?
So, go ahead. Convince me. I am listening.
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