Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Vote from a common man!

Elections time again. 

I am going to cast my vote to a party I would consider lesser corrupt than the other. 

Nobody is clean here... isn't it? 

So I thought why not make an assessment paper on Indian Politics from the views of a common man. 

Okay, so state government of Madhya Pradesh is ruled by BJP (Bhartiya Janata Party) for last five years. They won in the last elections because the Digvijay Sing led Congress-I government did the following thins: (Or why I voted for BJP in the last elections)

 1. The semi government institutions were told to look else where for findings and salaries. My Mother is a teacher in a semi government school; her colleagues are the people who got affected by this decision the most. Imagine a person with a monthly take home salary of Rs. 5500/- to 7500/- is suddenly changed to mere Rs. 1500/- to 2500/-. The whole economics of a small town with as many as 4 semi government institutions would have been after this decision from the government!

 We all, who religiously voted for congress in earlier elections giving Digvijay a 10 Year term at Bhopal, chose BJP.

2. When Chattisgarh came into existence, no division plan formed by Digvijay Singh. The power plants which generated electricity for the entire state were now in another state. Digvijay failed to convince his party member and Chattisgarh CM Jogi to give electricity on affordable rates. This led to a dark age when small towns and villages got electricity as much as 2-4 Hours a day. This was a disaster. Many MSEB workers got beaten up by angry mob of farmers and students.

Result: After Semi-government employee families, it was time for farmers, students and MSEB employees to vote against Congress.

3. Once there was MP State Road Travel Corporation. It was in big trouble with heavy loan. Again, CH got the share of buses and refused to take the loan burden percentage over it. In following months, the whole department came to a halt. A major government public transport corporation sank without a trace. SRTC was preceded by small crampy buses, which overload commuters like cattle and had no respect for them whatsoever. In MP 4 districts, Khergone, Dhar, Jhabua and Barwani have no rail network. The only way to travel is by road.

As the SRTC closed and employees were denied any compensation, they also voted against Congress.

If here we excuse the rest of the political issues such as corruption, roads, water and poverty, we had enough reasons to fight back.

Dear oh dear... did that bet worked?

Yeah... kind of!

People from Semi government organizations got airier.. part payment of their salary deducted by Diggi... got full salaried status back and will get the reaming amount if chosen for another term.

We have some more electricity time now as some dams have come up with electricity which was sold outside the state by Congress government.

No Buses YET... but will have a railway line soon inside.. I know it is a central government job but initiatives are important.

One can see the infrastructure boom in the city of Indore. Now we have four-lane roads, city transport buses, less polluting city vans, many flyovers and better facilities.

Here... My vote goes to BJP in hopes for another good innings to finish what they have started.