April 30, 2014 was supposed to be a watershed day in the history of a fledgling so called Telangana state as it's citizens were exercising their franchise for the first time ever and the euphoria surrounding the same and welcome measures adopted and incorporated by an enterprising Election Commission were expected to send the voting figures into the stratosphere but alas, the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad cut a sorry figure and shamed themselves with their lethargy, prevarication and sheer callousness..........
One did hear a few stories about names of entire families missing from the newly revised and updated electoral rolls but was that cause enough to justify the fact that 47% of the eligible voters did not exercise their franchise or voting rights?????? I for one certainly do not think so and exhort these lazy bums to shed years of lethargy and prevarication and become an integral part of the change they want to see on the ground........
Me and a few more intrepid explorers like me did make it a point to exercise our voting rights bright and early ( my better half and me had cast our votes by 8 am) and venture out to experience the much touted "model" polling booths for ourselves and one must certainly doff one's hat to the Election Commission in this regard as the sight of waiting kids, senior citizens and others being offered roses, snacks, butter milk and other liquid refreshments while waiting in air cooled shamianas or tents did indeed come as a welcome relief for cynical and world weary eyes and held out the hope for a bright and better voting experience.........
One really wonders whatever happened to those pledges taken by both first time as well as veteran voters in full public glare and in plain view of omnipresent television cameras; one also participated in a rally that was expressly meant to spread awareness about voting rights and the need to step out and vote along with a minimum of 3,500 or so like minded people on the city's resplendent Necklace Road on April 26, 2014, one simply wonders how that new found enthusiasm and euphoria dissipated and disappeared over a matter of a mere four (4) days or so............
We (a significant majority of the urban electorate) have reduced ourselves to caricatured armchair critics who seem to believe that castigating our existing political system and deploring it at any and every given time is our divinely ordained right while failing to pay equal heed and importance to the fact that people who are not willing to wade into the system and get their elbows and knees dirty in an effort to overhaul the same simply have no right whatsoever to give out sermons without being a part of the system.........
And last but not the least, everybody is a little to busy in waiting for the next person to step up to the plate and make a difference while failing to take cognisance of the irrefutable fact that it simply takes the power of one to either instigate or usher in a revolution; so do don your revolutionary hat and shed years of slumber before the situation becomes irredeemable and irrevocably gets out of hand as our politicians are nothing but a self serving lot who will only do right by themselves and nobody else...........
IT IS UP TO US TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, SO DO LET'S STEP FORWARD AND BE THE DIFFERENCE THAT WE WANT TO SEE ON THE GROUND.............
One did hear a few stories about names of entire families missing from the newly revised and updated electoral rolls but was that cause enough to justify the fact that 47% of the eligible voters did not exercise their franchise or voting rights?????? I for one certainly do not think so and exhort these lazy bums to shed years of lethargy and prevarication and become an integral part of the change they want to see on the ground........
Me and a few more intrepid explorers like me did make it a point to exercise our voting rights bright and early ( my better half and me had cast our votes by 8 am) and venture out to experience the much touted "model" polling booths for ourselves and one must certainly doff one's hat to the Election Commission in this regard as the sight of waiting kids, senior citizens and others being offered roses, snacks, butter milk and other liquid refreshments while waiting in air cooled shamianas or tents did indeed come as a welcome relief for cynical and world weary eyes and held out the hope for a bright and better voting experience.........
One really wonders whatever happened to those pledges taken by both first time as well as veteran voters in full public glare and in plain view of omnipresent television cameras; one also participated in a rally that was expressly meant to spread awareness about voting rights and the need to step out and vote along with a minimum of 3,500 or so like minded people on the city's resplendent Necklace Road on April 26, 2014, one simply wonders how that new found enthusiasm and euphoria dissipated and disappeared over a matter of a mere four (4) days or so............
We (a significant majority of the urban electorate) have reduced ourselves to caricatured armchair critics who seem to believe that castigating our existing political system and deploring it at any and every given time is our divinely ordained right while failing to pay equal heed and importance to the fact that people who are not willing to wade into the system and get their elbows and knees dirty in an effort to overhaul the same simply have no right whatsoever to give out sermons without being a part of the system.........
And last but not the least, everybody is a little to busy in waiting for the next person to step up to the plate and make a difference while failing to take cognisance of the irrefutable fact that it simply takes the power of one to either instigate or usher in a revolution; so do don your revolutionary hat and shed years of slumber before the situation becomes irredeemable and irrevocably gets out of hand as our politicians are nothing but a self serving lot who will only do right by themselves and nobody else...........
IT IS UP TO US TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, SO DO LET'S STEP FORWARD AND BE THE DIFFERENCE THAT WE WANT TO SEE ON THE GROUND.............
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