Year 2014 came with the promise of giving the chance to
choose the government for the next five years. People from all over the country
are more active and excited this time as compare to last election in 2009,
atleast on social media, as many of them wants to exercise their voting right.
The conventional political fight has become more interesting with the entry of
AAP and activation of some regional parties. People are joining some party or
other in an attempt to make an impact in the development of the country which
is not bad. Couple of months ago, I failed to understand when Kiran Bedi said
that people too can work a lot from the outside. Is there anything for the
common man to do in the current politics? Can he/she participate from outside?
There are three types of people in the elections; one,
political parties and their leaders who will be the direct beneficiary for
victory in the election, two, volunteers of these political parties, which are
seen as supporters, are the indirect beneficiary of these election as they KNOW SOMEBODY
who is in the power, third, the common man, who is always at the at the mercy
of their leaders for whom they voted for.
Let us see what common people are doing right now; they have
some preferences for some political party like BJP, Congress, AAP or any other
region party. They think these parties can do something good for them, which is
not wrong. They post everything for the support of these parties on Facebook
and tweets in the favour of this party, they want to win every discussion which
is related with the party of their interest. People are searching and
researching material to post on their wall and if any one comments anything
against it then there are exchanges of news articles, youtube links, reports
and anything and everything which is in favour of his/her party or against the
other party. Isn’t it happening right now?
“Whatever is good, it is for me, whoever says”, may be the another
strategy of this common man but when they commit to some political parties, they
have to prove everything right, inside he may be feeling it wrong. Do they have
any obligation to prove their leaders correct in all respect? No political
party can be envisaged as free-from-doubt and has the magical stick that will
change everything. Biasedness is our greatest enemy. All political leaders are
delivering their speeches, although it’s political, and one can judge it
correctly if he/she is unbiased. Our leaders, most of them if not all, are very
good students of marketing and they know the power of positive and negative
branding. They give us the spectacles of negative brand from which we
see our
opponent leader with.
Time and again we blame them for their arrogance, autocracy,
nepotism and cronyism but we have also contributed in some way or another to
make them powerful, we prefer to defend them by giving the examples of
opponents that they are more wrong-doers than mine. Let negative criticism
leave onto these leader and their paid-agents we need to adopt positive criticism
from all the depths of our wisdom, which is the required most at this time.
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