PARTY WHAT A PARTY!

The Indian Constitution is huge, humongous, big. The number of Political parties in India are a lot. The population of India is the second highest. So after all this, the support and turn out given to each party will be varied.

In India a lot of money is spent on campaigning for a particular party pre elections, post which a lot of money is spent on enjoying the celebrations and at the expense of who?- the tax payers! Interestingly only around 30% or so of the earning population pay taxes. Now with that wonderful figure of money that the government has, most of it is used up in campaigning and then in celebrating. The left over money is always eaten up (or burped) by the politicians with a few fly-overs and roads going up here and there.

According to facts a party is allowed to spend only around 15 lakhs on a particular area (not constituency) in spite of which crores of money is spent on each constituency. Giving a fact sheet or an expenses sheet for the same is quite a task which most party leaders either fail doing or just ignore out of convenience. Not like the ones that give the figures are Satyawaadi Harishchandra either.

With loud blaring horns and innumerable people on bikes and cars, with road jams and traffic nuisance, with loud speakers booming out Bollywood and random English numbers (songs), it is less of a sight and more of a pain to a lot of people.

Most of the bikers are seen ‘humping’ or jumping on the bikes and many people sit on windows of cars while the cars are in motion. This isn’t a sight you would see otherwise on roads. Interestingly because a certain party has won the elections they get the license to flaunt rules and break and bend them according to their convenience.

How ironical that the one party which is supposed to get in law and order, maintain rules and regulations and call shots for positive have a bunch of ruckus creating mob who on the name of celebrations bring down the utmost chaos in the society.

What is the best part of all this- you can’t say a word. Why? Because if you dare so, in a crowd of hundreds of people you would flow away like a piece of hay. If you raise your voice against one person you will have to face the wrath of the mob. It is interesting that in a democracy where people have the maximum power to choose their representatives actually go against all law and order under the influence of mob. There are a few people who wish to control the wrong or bad mobs but obviously they aren’t able to do so. This could be because they are fewer in number or that they do not gain as much honest and supportive people who wouldn’t take off on seeing danger approaching.

The multi-party system in India is a wonderful creation by the great Politicians who wish to divide and rule. Little do they realise that this has been pretty much the cause of a lot of fall and very little rise of the country and nation as a whole. With lucrative offers like food packets and free clothes, it is easy to turn the minds of a lot of rural population of this country in favour of a certain party. As India is made of more rural than urban population, targeting the former works in the favour of most parties. It is this aspect that most politicians take advantage of and ride on.

Multi Party system will continue and so will its advantages and disadvantages. The ‘food for thought’ here is this- if under the influence of less or uneducated mob there is a ruckus being created, then are educated politicians serving the nation right? If yes, for how long (before the old age and the creed takes over them!).