The Moral and More

It is a hard core fact that almost all the political parties in India have originated from dissent or conflict with some other parties either as a new formation or as a splinter faction. And mostly, the vested interests of a handful of persons would have triggered their genesis.

In India’s parliamentary democracy, we have witnessed a few instances earlier, where a host of such parties joined together and formed an ‘alliance of convenience’ or an arrangement of 'understanding’ on the eve of an election with the sole objective of defeating another alliance / party / leader. We also saw that whenever such a ‘conglomeration of disparate elements’ won the elections, after forming a government, growth took a reverse turn, nation’s interests and development took a back seat and the temporarily forgotten earlier dissents and conflicts and vested interests again rose to the fore and became more prominent and uncontrollable, eventually leading to the premature death of the government and an early, unwarranted and avoidable election at the cost of the voters’ hard earned money. In short, an unstable and short lived government, reversal of growth and an early election are the only final take-aways of a wrong choice made by the voters at the time of casting their vote.

The moral of the earlier failed experiments is very clear. That is, politics should not be the consideration while casting the vote and instead, getting a stable government having the minimum chances of developing internal conflicts and maximum chances of running its full term and no chance of reversal of growth should be the aim of the voter and casting of the vote has to be done accordingly. This is the paramount responsibility of a voter.

It will be in the interests of the nation if the moral of the earlier failed experiments is always borne in mind by every voter.