Last week, I had a discussion with a friend on how we, the educated Indians, should be less lackadaiscal, and, instead, proactively participate in exercising our franchise to root out corrupt politicians.
Well, he may have a point there, but my cynicism is deep rooted; I have often felt that we, the so- called educated, love to crib about the rampant corruption prevalent in our country, curse our leaders and never let go a chance to air our 2 cents on 'what is right and what is wrong'.
(I do it, i.e., CRIB… yet… I bribed a cop to let my Peppy off...)
Now, how many of us really go and vote? Countable few. And why? Well, there is no dearth of reasons.
Basically, we just love to sit on our ass and hate to queue up in the smoldering heat with the lesser mortals to cast our vote. Or it could be because of lack of choice of candidates in the run… (We can only choose from highly corrupt to less corrupt) Or it could be the uncertainty of our vote already cast (CRIB…CRIB…CRIB…)
At 2:30AM, my buddies – idealism and romanticism, came knocking and nudged me out of my reverie. They suggested that voters' ID card should have an identification number. This way every citizen has an identification number.
This will benefit our country in the following way:
1. Keep tab on illegal immigrants
2. Keep tab on the adult population and indirectly on the population growth rate.
Online voting should also be made available. Educated computer literate citizen should be given a PW and user id, (like the ones we have in office). These ids would be unique; in fact it could be their citizen ID…
If this is done, we can expect the following benefits:
1. More number of educated voters turnout.
2. Indians living abroad can also vote
3. Check on corruption
4. Restriction on illegal immigrants during polls
5. Taming of hoodlums
I listened to them and thought, it would definitely make a good movie script – another Chak De .We can then, maybe, expect conscientious people to take the streets urging others to come out… shouting Chak De voters…
Well, he may have a point there, but my cynicism is deep rooted; I have often felt that we, the so- called educated, love to crib about the rampant corruption prevalent in our country, curse our leaders and never let go a chance to air our 2 cents on 'what is right and what is wrong'.
(I do it, i.e., CRIB… yet… I bribed a cop to let my Peppy off...)
Now, how many of us really go and vote? Countable few. And why? Well, there is no dearth of reasons.
Basically, we just love to sit on our ass and hate to queue up in the smoldering heat with the lesser mortals to cast our vote. Or it could be because of lack of choice of candidates in the run… (We can only choose from highly corrupt to less corrupt) Or it could be the uncertainty of our vote already cast (CRIB…CRIB…CRIB…)
At 2:30AM, my buddies – idealism and romanticism, came knocking and nudged me out of my reverie. They suggested that voters' ID card should have an identification number. This way every citizen has an identification number.
This will benefit our country in the following way:
1. Keep tab on illegal immigrants
2. Keep tab on the adult population and indirectly on the population growth rate.
Online voting should also be made available. Educated computer literate citizen should be given a PW and user id, (like the ones we have in office). These ids would be unique; in fact it could be their citizen ID…
If this is done, we can expect the following benefits:
1. More number of educated voters turnout.
2. Indians living abroad can also vote
3. Check on corruption
4. Restriction on illegal immigrants during polls
5. Taming of hoodlums
I listened to them and thought, it would definitely make a good movie script – another Chak De .We can then, maybe, expect conscientious people to take the streets urging others to come out… shouting Chak De voters…
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