Elections - A Relook

Today, it's two topics which are in my mind.

Elections - Extremely surprising and dissappointing that in Bangalore there was only 51% voting done, while Bangalore South was around 50% and Bangalore North is around 45%. Bangalore South seems to be "the" location for most "educated" "learned" people and the candidates were also equally good.. Still, what's happeing? c'mon.. it's easier to blame the politicians, system, blah.. blah.... But the matter of fact is that people want to live with that particular moment. They get a long weekend and want to go out.. This is our so called democratic bent of mind. Freedom of expression (or is it freedom of expressions for not expressing anything ??? ) Sad state of affairs.. Do people understand that how much of difference those 50 - 60% votes make ?. No jaagore, no achche sachche.. koooch nahin. People, particularly the younger generation are not interested in this. It's very evident.

One of the young fellows (must be around 28 - 30) came to the polling booth where I casted my vote along with his friends and the moment he saw there was a queue, he just shouted to his friends "wav !!, let us go..." there was a jubiliation in his face. When the police constable asked him to stand in the queue, he said "who is going to stand in this queue and vote?.. .huh" and just walked out. Since I was almost inside the polling booth, I could not get in touch with him. I felt like slapping him (I believe, it is undemocratic !!!) and told him the value of his vote.

I remember reading a statement from one of politicians "people don't cast their vote, they vote their caste". What a sad thing? And we are here clapping for Premjis and Narayan Murthys for their speaches on how bad the roads were. What have we done? Sorry. I am not expecting any response for this question but I prefer everyone one of us introspect within ourselves on this.

Just open the car window glass , throw out the kurkure empty packet and pull up the glass. Such insensitive bastards are there in our society. We can't control our nature calls and just stop wherever we want as if the entire world is a urinal. We just overtake someone and have one great sadistic smile. We crib that people don't care for their cities and outsiders have spoilt the city. We, the bangaloreans, how much we have kept our own spaces clean? With all these things, we keep cribbing out at politicians, systems, etc, etc. Over and above these things, we don't vote. Are we heading towards a disaster ????

I feel that even for the duties like elections, sensus, government should start taking in people from IT industry who feel that they always need to be in Ivory Tower. We should be part of the community to do sensus and conduct elections. Not sure how many people give one dirty look at me if I say this. But I don't care. I am ready for these kind of duties which is good for the nation.

If, so called "well educated" (not sure what is the meaning of "educated". Is it just scoring high marks in their academics and secure gold medals?) behave like this, it is quite possible for us to expect that people in the rural area will be even worst. But the fact is that Bangalore Rural voting is at a whopping 61%. Do we need more proof???