An ordinary voter’s view on why we should not vote for Congress in Elections 2014

I am a voter and I am neither anti-Congress nor pro-BJP but against the way Congress has been governing this country all these years.

I am for progress and growth that should become visible in real terms across the length and breadth of this country and not just in a few posh localities of cities and towns.  

I am pro-change. I am an ordinary citizen vexed with the system of governance. At the same time confused as to what to do and feeling helpless. The only weapon I have is a vote and I own nothing else that could bring change. Our votes only changed governments and not the lives of the millions of people of India who continue to live in penury election after election.

Political parties that do not serve the people’s aspirations and fulfill the promises made in their manifestos can be classified into two categories: CAT parties and DOG parties. All these years, we have been voting for either of them because only they have been contesting in the elections. We now have one or two new parties which are neither of the categories and is a welcome sign.

National parties fall in the category of Cat parties and as is the characteristic of a cat, these parties when voted to power close their eyes and swindle people’s money assuming that nobody is noticing them.

Regional parties fall in the category of Dog parties and as is the characteristic of a dog, these parties mark their territory (my state, my language etc.) and can’t think beyond the narrow confines of their markings and are mostly interested in looting the vast national resources available regionally.

The cats and the dogs need no jobs to eke out their livelihood. They have ‘resources’ that give them the privilege of living a luxurious life and dictate how the ordinary and common people should live, that too at the cost of tax-payers’ money. Their agenda is 3Fs. Frame the Laws, Flout the Rules and Favor their Men.  

Neither the cats nor the dogs were able to take the nation forward as expected even after 67 years of independence. Younger countries have gone far ahead of India. Either you call it a cat party or a dog party, or a combination of both, Congress has been ruling India for almost 55 years. The following are some strong reasons why we should not vote for Congress in elections 2014:

1.   Scams, scams and scams: The last 10 year period especially saw the maximum number of scams in our country. To name a few : Oil for Food scam, Telephone Exchange scam in Tamil Nadu, 2G scam, Coal mines scam, MHADA and Adarsh Society Scam in Maharashtra, Common Wealth Games scam in Delhi, KG Basin Oil scam, Augusta Westland Scam, Cash for votes scam, Reliance Power Scam, etc. The list is endless.

2.   Vote bank politics: They continue to play the minority card thereby creating social tensions that are non-existent in the first place. This is a cheap technique of getting votes by creating fear. They have all through been giving a false sense of security to one category of people while in reality all people live in peace and harmony with each other. How long will they do this? How can they be called secular when they speak about minority and majority? Only those who speak of ONE INDIA can be called secular.

3.   Family run: They continue to be a family owned organization surrounded by fanatics who continue to use, abuse, misuse and disuse the ‘family’ by misguiding them for their own vested interests.

4.   Power intoxication/addiction: So much power has gone to the head of top Congress guns that they are addicted to it. Just as a drug addict will do anything for a dose, 55 years of being in power has made Congress to go to any extent for being in power. The manner in which AP has been bifurcated and Telangana formed is the latest example to prove this point.

5.   Politics first: For a poet, everything is poetry-worthy and for Congress everything that happens in India is politics-worthy. Their ex-CM from MP is the greatest example of how their leaders are capable of coolly politicizing the apolitical issues. They can pluck feathers from an egg, seriously.

6.   Shameless shielding of partners: They shield their partner parties’ leaders in spite of them being involved in huge scams, the proportions of which are never heard of in independent India just to stay in power. This is done at the cost of tax-payers money with little or no regard for the people.

7.   Leader of stature? They don’t have a single leader who can be even partly equated to Gandhi (not the current Gandhis please), Nehru, Shastri, Indira (forget the Emergency of 1975 -77) Rajiv and P.V.Narasimha Rao in any aspect that one prefers to compare.

Even if one does not accept any of the above points, it is time that a new party is given an opportunity at least for the next 55 years to make India a developed country and remove the permanent tag of a ‘developing nation’. How long should we be a ‘developing nation’? As long as Congress rules this country! No doubt!

The election 2014 results will decide the course of this nation for sure. Whether voters create an atmosphere of more scams, corruption and vote bank politics at the cost of progress is completely in their hands.

The sky will clear on May 16^th 2014.