After the barbaric attacks in Mumbai on 26th November 2008, there was widespread agitation and the city saw thousands of protestors coming together lighting candles, chanting slogans and demanding a change in the political system.
However, not even five months later, in the assembly elections, the Mumbai voters’ turnout was abysmal. About 43% of the eligible voters turned to cast their precious votes. While the majority of them didn’t make use of the power vested in them by the government of India.
Most of them said that they didn’t go to vote since they were aggravated by the management at the booth. Some were just too lazy.
At one hand we talk about bringing about a change and at the other we don’t want to make that change. Aren’t these double standards we are resorting to?
Voting is our right, and we should make correct use of it or else what’s the point of living in a democracy. And with all kinds of awareness campaigns after the Mumbai attacks, if we still don’t know how to bring about change, then it’s something to be really ashamed about.
So please go out there and vote!
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Total Hyporactic behaviour by fellow Indians...how can we make the change with such kind of an attitude?
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