Indian Election League: IEL

Welcome to the great Indian Tamaasha or Nautanki, or whatever you want to call it. Its here and how. The election season is on with great fanfare and loads of nautanki. Parties have released their manifestos claiming what all they will do, once they come into power, blaming what the incumbent couldn’t do, the incumbent claiming what they will continue to do if selected again, the hate speeches, the constant blame game. Now if that is not tamasha, then what it is?

Politicians can stoop to any level to win our votes. Samajwadi Party released its manifesto which stated that they want to ban English language and Computers along with futures and stock trading and merchandised farming. Only a moron can think the way this party thinks. Even the most insane person on this earth won’t make such a manifesto. India’s IT sector is pride of India and these cartoons want to ban computers. This very thought is outlandish to say the least. Majority of outsourcing happens to India and this party want to ban English. That is so preposterous. What on earth was going on their mind when they prepared such a manifesto? Together IT, ITES and BPO contributes handsomely to the Indian GDP. They are the invisible receipts of funds and one can only imagine what will happen to India’s BOP(Balance of Payment) if we end up banning computers or English.

Instead of focussing how to take the country forward the demagogue of this party is plotting how to take this country back to18 century. Instead of making a road map as to make India literate and technosavy these lunatic men are only interested in power and position and it is a disgrace that Sanjay Dutt is campaigning for such a party. Today, internet has the power to change the society and computers are a must if India has to progress. The classic example is mobile which has penetrated the rural India. Education is a barometer of Country’s progress and for that English is a must.

Nowadays lots of ads are coming urging people to vote. I do agree that people should go and vote and exercise their rights. But I don’t think that I'm going to vote this year.

My heart just won’t allow me to vote. For whom should I vote? For BJP, who are always bickering as to who has more power, who is more capable to lead, who has more experience and one of their leaders, Mr. Narendra Modi responsible for the ghastly godhra and is now busy accusing Congress for being budiya party and then backtracking and calling them gudiya party as if he has been inspired by the movie “The curious case of Benjamin Button”. For MNS, and that coward Raj Thackrey, who is playing the messiah of Maharashtra and creating rift among the Indians and when 26/11happened, couldn’t muster even courage to speak neither could tell his men to come and help those trapped people that day. He is not even a Maharashtrian, let alone an Indian. For congress, whose CM, after the day attacks were over, was visiting the Taj sites along with his son and a famous director. Or for that matter shiv sena, who at a drop of hat want to create violence and declare bandh and change name of various entities in Mumbai.

These politicians are worst than prostitutes. The latter sells her body for money, the former has sold their soul. The elections have become a battleground for blame game. Everyone is taking a shot at another and nobody is willing to talk about what they want to do for their country. It’s a shame that such harebrained men and women are at helm of affairs.

I’m not saying that perfection is required in politics, but neither do we require leaders who are inept, impotent(not in a literal sense), lunatic, coward and interested in playing blame games. We need leaders who can run this country selflessly and to their best of abilities, and who can put country before them. I want this country to vote but I won’t be one of them. Someday I will float my party and join politics but until then I will enjoy this Tamasha called Indian Election League.

P.S. Bring the cheer leaders.