Isn't that the question we used to ask our parents or elders as kids ?
Why does Anna get the bigger piece of cake? Why is that topper-idiot loved more than me? and so continues the list of whys, whats and hows.
Isn't that the very same question we must now aptly be asking the elders in our country, the leaders who're leading our nation ?
Why is it that a shooter who shoots a target in the Olympics given a prize of 3 crores and another shooter who shoots terrorists and defends our nation given a prize of a mere 5 lacs ?
Why is the Indian Cricket team given the privilege of travelling in AC volvo buses, while our Black cat commandos in ordinary red-buses ?
Why is an ordinary citizen taken to court over a traffic signal jump and an MLA's son left to roam free after a hit and run accident ?
Why is it that Zaheer khan made a big deal about his friend being frisked at the entrance to his hotel while me and you wait patiently and take no offence ?
Why is it that in our city the most heavily guarded places even today are the homes of the MPs and MLAs ?
What is given in return to those army and police personnel who guard their homes, so that they can sleep in peace ?
What about the common man ? The man who gives his services ?
Is nobody bothered about him?Is there nobody who cares what happens to the common man? Is it only that privileged class of rich and powerful who deserve it?
Why is it that our politicians remember the common man only at the time of elections?Why does the common man fall prey to the sop given to him by the politicians?
Its all about the common man. He is all powerful. It is just that he doesn't realise that all the power rests in his hands.
I am talking about the power to vote.The power the common man has to make or break a government. The most recent example being that of the Maharashtra government. The power rests in our hands, whether we want to let things happen the way they are or step forward, voice out and change things.
Many people often wonder, what can we do? how can one man change the system? why should one enter 'dirty' politics?
It is all in the thought. If one person takes the initiative to do something and move forward, surely others will follow. And change has to begin someplace with some person, on one day or the other.
Let us be that change. Let us all, in our own places and capacities try to make things better. Let us not take an easy way out by saying that politics is dirty or for what should we vote. Please come forward and vote.
We make those politicians, lets make better ones than we did last time.