Fight 4 the chair......

About 10 yrs back, the day of election (or should I say days) was/were very exciting for me. Not only that my school, being a govt aided school and hence a polling and counting booth, we d get a truckload of holidays, but also I enjoyed the whole concept of people thronging for a long time in polling centers to make a fool of themselves by voting for an idiot time after time. Man, I used to say to myself, those days, “ I m gonna vote for an idiot one day too. “. So when I read abt the imminent election days , I was excited abt a possibility of my first vote.. But as it turns out, I m away 4m my home now and I guess, I will have to wait further to cast a vote.
Now that we r in this topic, It was a no-brainer to find out that the contesting candidates for the top chair are well past prime age. The NDA goes for Advani who I guess is 90 years old and the UPA (is it still an alliance???) backs Mr.Singh. Though highly capable and skilled, he is also in his 80’s. The third front is a comical one. So I am not even going to consider them here. I remember studying in Civics about the various party systems in d world and in some place it said that the bi-party system is the most effective one in democracy. I said 2 myself “ We have more options in our multiparty system? Then how come they say that the bi-party system is the better one?? “ . Only now do I get a clear picture. Man, Bi-party system is way better.
Another interesting aspect abt this election is that almost all the leaders have started talking abt Post-Poll ties.. I can’t do anything but laugh. “If ideological difference is why CPI left the UPA, how come post-poll ties are possible?” , will ask an intelligent man. But we, the common people of India know that these power longing idiots will do anything to get the chair.
During the last yr elections, there happened a mini-scale revolution. A group of IITians formed a party known as d LokParitran. As one would expect, they didn’t even win any constituency. But however, as manirathnam points out in Ayudaezhuthu, it’s the right step forward. This time, a young entrepreneur from d IIM A, Sarath Babu is contesting. I m curious to find out how many votes he d get.
Having said all this, I still feel quite sad to miss out on voting in this election. I personally feel, that it is one time, that I will ever matter to the nation or the society. So irrespective of which idiot, I vote for, I will always feel happy of doing it.

Rammy.