Electing a change!

It’s that time of the year which comes after every five years – sometimes earlier though – its election time. We are getting bombarded from all directions for one thing that is good – to exercise the right to vote and the other that is not so good - hearing our politicians roaring all over, going ga-ga over their not-so-visible achievements. May it be television, newspapers or road-side hoardings – they are there everywhere like weeds in an abandoned garden.
So how do we contribute to elections – the obvious answer is by voting! I still remember the carefree days of childhood when elections meant a lot of movies along with the election bulletins – just covering the counting of votes and announcing of results.

Yes we need to vote undoubtedly – after all we are a part of educated India – so we need to at the very least vote-for if not get voted-by! How we have to be reminded to exercise our duties (infact it's a right!) while the onus on us is far more than that. But we are too lazy or say just ignorant of the change we should be bringing. Or are we Indians averse of taking risks? I don't think it falls in the class of being lazy – it’s being cautious probably. Cautious of what we might land into if try to bring about a change – if we try making people hear us – because we are not sure of the people who will be listening to us.
So, the question is do we know if we as people are listening to the right people? Do we have the correct choice to choose from? Or is it that ‘if not this one then that one’. Of course, we can always complain that we don't have good leadership we can rely on. But what did we do the past five years – we were so busy either earning money or paying taxes or going through the daily grind of traffic/road congestions/rising prices/loan interests/sky-rocketing school fees/melting economy to top it all. So the past five years just flew by and we never gave even a slightest thought if we can bring about a change! And because the five years just went by – we are not sure of the upcoming five years. Voting is no doubt the thing to do – but does it end here? Just by voting we may not ‘ensure’ a difference – as we are the elite educated India – and obviously elite means less in number.