Thursday, October 10, 2013

Commandeering change

Like every time, once again the elections are curiously awaited, for a dream to change India, for a chance to choose someone better. What we have as options are UPA and BJP.
While there was a time between 1996-98 when we had four different Prime Ministers, and now is a time which has seen only two Prime Ministers in last 15 years. Where once stability was highly demanded, now we are dissatisfied with the kind of stability we have faced, a far too extreme stability of 10 years. So, the change demanded by the common man is not of the party or the leader, it is of the the system as a whole. And our urge to see this change, lets us being fooled by the modern marketing and campaigning strategies of these parties and leaders.
First, the author discusses our first option- Mr. Modi from BJP. Though he surely represents a change, but he has yet to convince that he will bring the change. The big miscalculated assumption of BJP that the Lok Sabha elections will be held in Nov, 13 may bring unplanned consequences to its early Modi fire. Due to Modi entering the arena too early, his once pure and nice character is being questioned as 'feku'. Although he hasn't claimed to bring about dramatic changes, still he convinces to bring forward the existing plans in better fruitful ways.
Next, discussion comes along the ways of Congress and Rahul Gandhi. Congress has been ruling the nation for 10 years, with a mediocre performance. What Rahul Gandhi needs to do is to show us the difference between the 2004-14 UPA and the upcoming Congress. Though he started bad, by going against the 'criminal' ordinance, everybody waits to get answer to what he is capable of in future.
Here we stand again hand-in-hand waiting for a change, led by the chosen. The change we need is though more or less the same, still we have different questions in our minds.

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