Day 14306 - The Citizens day

Today is citizens day for Republic of India. 

The entire nation is in the process of electing its next prime minister. So I too did my part of "exercising" the most important "right" as well as "fulfilling" the most important "duty". Yes I cast my VOTE.

Ironically though its been more than 20 years since I earned the right of voting, yet as fate would have it, its my second time ever.

Now I don't really have a strong view or even knowledge on the political aspects of  running a country, but yes I do have a few perspective around the subject.

I believe that running a country is no joke. It takes enormous amount of selflessness to really even attempt that. All of us have a choice of leading a "citizens" life - with money, family, a nice cozy corporate job, easy weekends and so on. Its perhaps a much easy way of making money than being in politics and governance business! Although our politicians are always blamed of corruption, power play and what-nots, but then surely if it was just money, its much easier in corporate sector. (As any IT or those startup folks of how "hard" they have to work for a living)

Its of course not easy to be 24 hours on vigil - watching every statement that you ever utter, being weary of anyone you meet, keeping your accounts as clean as possible, watching for any "enemy" attack and on top of that expecting to get everything in this system , "corrected" for its citizens.

Hence I sincerely and truly salute all the politicians (Good one, Bad Ones or the Ugly ones) and I really think, I have no "real" right to complain or blame them for everything that goes bad in this country. I am as much responsible as they are.

Yes, If possible I would want to help them by sometimes raising a few pertinent questions, providing a few suggestions and may be volunteering for anything that I may be of service. But then I personally draw my line there!

So as far as India is concerned, my only prayer is that let it have a Government that wins (and it can be any one) have a clear majority so it can take decisions without trying to compromise too many things. We have seen enough of these coalitions and a democratic setup where no decision (good or bad) ever sees the light of the day. For once, I wish and pray that we have a Government that can run on its own! 

So I cast my VOTE this morning and want to wish the future prime minister (who ever it can be) , the very best. May God bless you with "Good" intents and may the "citizens" of this nation give you enough "support" so you can successfully make those intents come true for the betterment of everyone (including you if need be)