The assembly elections in Maharashtra are coming in a few days. So this is the perfect season for some Neta-bashing. Everywhere you'll see people criticizing politicians, and some netas do deserve it. मग मी पण माझे हात साफ करून घेतो.
On a serious note, I am not writing this post, just for the sake of criticism. The netas have started becoming nuisance even before getting actually elected. Recently, I got caught in traffic thrice. Once at Kothrud and twice on Deccan. Why? Some prominent political leaders had organised rallies? For what? Just to file their nominations. Come on!!! Do you ever celebrate so much just because you are going to apply for a job? Why would you? You are just a foolish common man. But these people? They'll never miss a chance to show how powerful they are. And powerful not for the public good, but only for their own. On one hand, they speak of austerity and on the other, they are just wasting the public's money. I am not saying that the rallies are orgainised using public money. But who pays for the petrol thats lost in the traffic jams they cause? Who pays for the time lost? Who pays for cleaning up the mess they leave behind(due to fire-crackers and all)? Who pays for the pollution their crackers cause? We, the foolish common people.
During the last Lok Sabha elections, I saw a rally of a prominent Congress Leader near Sancheti Hospital. Since the power had gone, a traffic police was controlling traffic. In such situations, vehicles coming from a particular side have to wait for long to get a GO signal. I had waited for really long. But just when the police had shown the sign for us to go, the rally came from the other direction. The police signaled them to stop. But they just waved at him and went on with the rally. It was a long one and people had to wait a long time for them to pass. Such are our Netas, with no respect for common man, nor for the police dept. or for that matter for anyone. Why would anyone vote for a guy/lady who has a gang of hooligans just shouting slogans and causing chaos? But we do. We all do. We can't help it. We have very few options.
There are some regional leaders as well who just speak of doing good for their own community, the people they call THEIR OWN, the marathi manoos. But do they really ask what a marathi manoos wants? Does seeing a McDonalds' board in marathi help you? Does renaming the Victoria Terminus and Sahar Airport to marathi names help you? Does the frequent beating up of biharis really help you? It doesn't. Why are these men inclined just to uplift the Marathi Manoos and not Maharashtra as a whole? I am not Marathi. Does that mean I am any less Maharashtrian and not entitled to any benefits of living here? UP/Bihar che lok and Marathi Manoos are the only things on their agenda. The others don't matter. But त्यांच्या इथे (in Bihar, TN, etc.) ते काही करतात तेव्हा तुम्ही बोलता का? मग आम्ही काही केल्यावरच काय प्रोबलेम होतो तुम्हाला? is what they ask. I have no answer. And even If I have, is anything going to change?
These politicians have just ruined our country. We are the second fastest growing economy. But we could have grown even faster, had these Netas not worked for themselves, but for the country. I just can't help myself from laughing when I read that a leader is erecting her own statues at various places in her state, when I read that an obviously super-rich politician says that he has no cars of his own, when I read that a neta who was responsible for some murders gets elected again. How easily they manage such stuff. And WE? We think twice even before submitting some fake bills(In case we ever dare to do so) for saving our taxes. Tax on the money we have earned with our own hardwork.. How foolish we are!
But what can we do? We are common people who will just wait and watch and hope for the better. We are no NETAS and hence are helpless. Is there a way out?
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