Wednesday, May 6, 2009

I Won't vote !!!!!!

Amidst the big media campaign endorsed by many to vote, there are people who have their reasons not to vote. The low polling in Mumbai is an indication to this fact. Ignoring these facts is damaging for the democracy. A democracy must find out the reasons that keeps its voters away from the booths. Many think that voting to be made compulsory, but without exploring these reasons, making it compulsory would rather harm than benefit.
In all this, I am also the one who does not want to vote from my constituency and Its because of the government policies. My constituency is a reserved constituency for Schedule caste ( one out of 84 reserved constituencies ) and always the persons from this section has represented us.
Some questions i would like to ask from the government is -

* Does only the SC from my constituency need the push, what about SC's of other constituencies ?
* Don't other's deserve this privilege ?
* Can't the allocation of reservation be done on rotational basis ?

Ambala has not developed to an extent it could have, given its favourable location with 5 national highways (NH 1, 22, 65, 72 and 73) passing through it. It is the gateway to north, someone coming from Delhi side has to cross Ambala to reach places like Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jammu, Simla, Chandigarh and many more. Only few others would boast of such a locational advantage but still Ambala is not among the major cities. Still we have to run to Chandigarh for high end medical needs, coaching for engineering, MBA, good sports facilities etc.

Why is that my constituency always has to do a favor ? Why not others also get a representative from the SC community ? Or the gov wants only the SC population of my constituency to rise ? If the rule was made for the benefit of these people, it should have been for all the constituencies. SC/ST from other constituencies should also get a chance( and spare mine).

It seems like next to impossible to implement. Because those having this privilege will not like it to go and those who are spared will not like to leave their seats to come under reserved category and we say-
" VOTER HAS THE POWER". Where is it - show me too.

"We are like parrots freed to fly but with rope tied to their feet "

I will be glad if somebody can take up the matter and do something about it.

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