The Unwelcome noise of Election
Khushi Khuman *
Voters in line to cast their votes showing the ID card
'Use your voting rights properly. Please vote for Sl. X, Miss / Mr. ABC for the coming election.
Elect him/her as a representative of the public and make her do some work for the public. Please give him/her your valuable votes.
Please don't forget Sl. No. X, Miss/Mr. ABC '.
These are the only words the general public can hear now-a-days.
Breaking the silence of the night, these words come from far and near as election comes nearer and nearer. Public hopes election to come as fast as it can so that they will be free from all this campaigning drama.
Truly speaking, what's the meaning of campaigning like this????
Candidate nominate themselves (in other places people /public nominate candidate but in ours, they do it themselves) thinking that they are one reliable, they are one dependable, one social work loving kind of person. If they really believe they are, then can I ask something here????
Why are they giving such kind of stupid headaches to the public whom they act as if they love and care upto zenith? Why are they making such noise that also not in morning or evening but at Night (Helloooo! I'm talking of hours like 00:00 hrs).
Is this what they called being reasonable, being dependable, being reliable???
Oh! Come on please! They don't even know how to win the soft corner of people's heart. They don't even know how to win the public's heart. They even don't have the slightest idea about what's the first thing that they should be giving the public. They don't know what our public needs.
It's not unworthy promises or cold/hot money but peace of mind in real that our public needs, which the public (try to) gets at night. Everyone wished of a peaceful land.
Our public also wished of one - A peaceful land gives its people a peaceful thought. A peaceful thought will lead the way for the public to choose their right leader. If they go on campaigning (shouting) like this, I am sure they are trying to confuse the public (voters).
A voter will be meeting and facing number of candidates who will try to show their best (even if it is acting for a while) and this will surely lead to confusion in the mind of the voter. A confused voter cannot and will not be able to choose the best leader.
Everyone knows this and so does the candidate.
And one funny thing ( a secret for the readers, don't tell this to the candidates), in the process of voting if they go on campaigning like this they may even lose their reserved numbers of votes.. Public wants peace. They need peaceful mind. And they don't really welcome all this sorts of campaigning at all.
Eligible candidates (according to my point of view) should not campaign at all. S(h)e should let the public judge him/her with a peaceful mind. For only a person with peace and harmony can judged between what is right and wrong.
'The Unwelcome Noise Of Election' is a horrible thing which has become a competition among candidates and a new disease for the public which has no cure at all. If we have to judge our best leader in an honest and truthful way, then we should not be prompted by all these sorts of campaigning and welcome them too.
We are the masters of our own life and mind and we should be aware of the modern election campaigning structure, because if somehow we are, we are just calling a USELESS FUTURE for ourselves without any change at all!!
* Khushi Khuman contributes to e-pao.net for the first time.,br/> In her own words - The writer says 'I am a 21 yr gal but still not a voter!!'
The writer can be contacted at jaan_chirom(at)yahoo(dot)com
This article was posted on May 24, 2011.
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