Indians continue to astonish me… Where else do we find citizens find every opportunity to scrutinize its government, yet seldom turn up for voting its new leaders? Too much corruption, slow government machine, too bad internal security, blah, blah, blah… But when push comes to shove, do we put our hands up and be counted? Honestly, I don’t think so. A glaring example for this is the 15th Lok Sabha elections. Coming at the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks & even such incidents & with so many campaigns urging people to exercise their right o vote, did we do justice to ourselves? 50% turnout in Delhi & Mumbai and 60% in Chennai. Are these good numbers for the world’s largest democracy? For those who treat Election Day as another holiday, you guys don’t deserve anything. I feel these democracy killers need to be stripped off their basic rights & deserve to be treated as 2nd grade citizens. Pardon me if I sound like a dictator. I strongly believe that India needs an ambitious dictator like Singapore’s Lee-Kwan-U to change itself. If we closely observe, majority of the non-voting public are from the urban areas. Sure it’s not a matter of merely educating people to vote. I feel something is fundamentally wrong with the mindset of Indians, something the whole country should be ashamed of. You need something, you got to EARN it. Asking the government for aids in almost everything is equal to begging. Think about it.
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