Issues please, we’ve got an election!
It’s apparent; the political parties in the current elections are short of election issues. Looking at the way things are being shown in the media, the main political alliances are simply busy pulling each others’ legs. While some months ago, an election in the United States had strong issues to vote for it led out in bringing out a new leader for America.
Is it that a country like ours does not have election issues? Definitely not! Terrorist struck like lightning in different parts of the country, killing many innocents; Mumbai was numbed due to a brutal attack that shook the world and there are explosions happening frequently in Assam. If terrorism was not enough, we had riots in Kandhmal, social moral policing in Mangalore, sky rocketing inflation and many more that a voter should take cognizance of.
What’s an interest to parties today is attacking the other party and re-tracking back. Parties and leaders rather than busy explaining policies to the voters are busy securing alliances for the future. History seems of more interest than present and future, we have a party that make ridiculous proposals of banning English schools and computers. While another still hopes the golden egg of “Ram Temple” issue will help gain electorates. We have an election wherein a person with no connections to politics becomes the General Secretary of a party, a scion of a political family is made a scapegoat of regional politics and a party finds a new mascot for its agenda in a young lad churning hate speeches. We have an election wherein pre-poll alliance partners do not want to part ways but still are contesting against each other while a party supreme attends a rally of an offshoot and still owes allegiance to its “former” ally. We have an election where three northern players ally with each other, one day owe allegiance to its former ally, the other criticize the same, are they heading any where?
We have an election, Can we have issues please?
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