India's Yes We can!!

The D-day:

 

20^th January 2008, the day, which created history, excited the world and cautioned the rise of one man, Barack Obama. Yes! It was a day, when Obama changed his title from US president elect to US president, the day on which people around the world gathered in Washington to climbs the unfolding history.

 

Unlike India’s political gathering, this gathering was filled with not only with the party worker but also with common people, who were from different longitude and latitude of the world. The people were enthralled, as if all their worries are going to be sorted out immediately. This showed the confidence the people had on their president elect. People enjoyed as if the king is out there to make their life fill with glory. People around the world celebrated as if it is rise of new glorious era, in this recession period. Best example is all national news channels in India, a country which is not much affected nor least affected by the US president chance, telecasted the entire evening celebrations live and the TRP of this program was all time high. These events resembled to the rise of King Alexander.

 

Isn’t it high time for Indian version of Yes we can?

 

I wonder when India will get a day like this. A day on which we Indians can be proud of our prime minister, politicians & system. At this moment the chances are less. If there is any Indian, who can create a charisma like Obama did then it has to be our people’s president, Abdul Kalam. But the chances of he contesting an election is almost negligible. And I don’t see any other person who can be like him in near future. I doubt even in so called India’s year, 2020, we will have a person like that. This leaves us with only one thing, a collective change from politicians to people.

 

“The NOs to YES! we can”

 

Who should be blamed for this status of India? The Politicians or the system or we the people? I would say it is a combination of all. How many of we really exercised our voting power properly to elect a good person?

 

The people’s No

 

Many consider the day as an extra holiday and continue to blame the government. Even if we vote, we won’t vote for a new and educated people, we will still vote for a tainted politician. Why we are not ready to give a chance to new educated and potential candidates?. So fault of we registering only 55 % of turnout and not selecting a proper person is one of the main reason for it.

 

The system’s No

 

Next comes our system, our system is designed in such a way that a person having 100s of backlog criminal cases can contest to any highest post in India, which by itself is contradicting to what we want, need for a great leader.   Our system is also designed with our local communal forces, unions which will always work the way it wanted rather than what the country needs. For example unnecessary strikes and low productivity. Corruption, lack of good mangers and reservations are the major contributor to what we are now.

 

 

 

 

A big no from politician.

 

Next comes our politicians, best example is we have a prime minister candidate of a national party, who declares that his election campaign is more important than visiting Mumbai during the worst terror attack of India. As long as we have people like this, what else we can expect from them? When entire world is looking for youth our top post candidates are always 75+. And next is rise of small politicians, who use useless issues like caste, communalism to gain points. For them Tamil is more important than India as a whole, small land in Bengal is more important than globalisation of India. Examples are Gujjar issue, LTTE issue, protest for Tata nano factory. Supporting communalism is more important for some than the much needed nuclear deal. Building a hindu temple is more important than the building good infrastructure. When a person who sold India for his person need (in sports) can become important face of a national party, what else we say about our politicians?

 

Yes, We can!!!                      

 

All this has to be changed, I know it will take time but then it has to begin, seeds for a banyan tree has to be laid with a small effort but it also needs continuous efforts to grow it. We cannot simply sit back and continue to seek for person growth after raising slogans like “Enough is Enough”. All the aforementioned things will change only if we change, only if we can everything will change… as we said “Enough is Enough “is not only for the politicians it is also for us.. let us change and make a prosperous India and make the entire world look at us and feel jealous as we did at USA.

 

Be the change you wanted to be….. and yes we can change all these in India. Yes we can!!

 

 

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