Elections

The elections are on the way, & the dance of democracy(As the Times aptly puts it) has just started. Forget about loyalty for a term, we are talking of coalitions with no common stand on any issue whatsoever. The principles are free to rot as long as as long as they get a shot. (at those in any other so called coalition, I mean). All laws which favour an opponent need to change(atleast till the elections are over).



All this just got me thinking. I havent got got my voters id made, as of yet. These guys from Jaago Re are doing a voters drive in my college.



Apparently, the last day to submit the form, to vote for this years elections was 1st of April. But apparently, the last date to nominate a candidate to stand for elections is still some time away. Thats not all, after a particular party has named a candidate it still has a few more days to withdraw his/ her candidature. Now with less than a month to go a voter is not even sure who is going to stand for elections.



But whats the use of rambling about ?? What can I do? What can we do? As for this elections, I can only pray. I admit its my laziness that I can not vote this time.



But the time has come for us to wake up! Its no use speaking in our sleep!!!



Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long supressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.



And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we first believed.



Jaago re.

Wake up .