Indian Parliament Elections 2024- it is a choice now, choose the right rulers
The elections to Indian Parliament-Lok Sabha- are announced. It is going to be conducted in a few phases. You should be proud that the greatest democratic event of the largest functioning democracy in this world is going to be conducted. The process has already started.Though it is the festival season in India now, above all, this great democratic event is going to be the biggest festival this season. As voters of this country, we are all participants in this election festival event.
You get this choice normally once in five years. Hence it is very important. This is the moment you get a high political value for yourselves. A slight mistake and you have to wait at least another five years to correct the mistake.
It is a choice-a real potential choice given to you. Think well. Review the past, Evaluate your future expectations and vision about your great country.
There are many recognized political parties in this country- a few All India parties and many other regional parties. They –or most of them- participate and contest the elections alone or in alliance or understanding with other parties. The alliances may be Pan-Indian or at regional levels as per local situations and mutual understandings.
The election time is the time when the contesting political parties extend a lot of promises and offers to the voters. You feel that your intrinsic value has suddenly gone up. You will be dumped with a lot of promises. They may promise heaven. They may offer a free life-everything free. There will be no dearth of Utopian promises and unrealistic impractical offers. But you will be hypnotized or mesmerized to believe all these. And in that daze you vote. Once the beep sound of the Electronic Voting Machine is over you suddenly stand devalued and back to your down-to-earth existence from the Royal, King-like image you were projected till now. Those who helped you by vehicle to come to the booths will vanish. The return trek you have to make yourself.
If you committed a mistake by pressing on the wrong candidate/symbol, then it will be a costly affair to you for the next five years at least.
You cannot exist without the nation existing safely and safeguarded. Hence in this election, your concern should be about the safety, security and sovereignty of our country. We have to exist and excel as a great nation. Once the nation is safe and secure from external and internal threats and there is a peaceful atmosphere in the country, then only you can have a peaceful and stable life.
Choose the right rulers who can safeguard our nation, make it a shining example to the world as a democracy and as a great economy, who can make this country a developed country, who can show deterrence to the miscreants and disruptionists -external and internal.
It is a choice- a very rare choice. Exercise your franchise to choose the right rulers for this country who can make India the Vishwa Guru or the teacher of the Universe, simultaneously making it a developed nation and the best and largest functional democracy in the world.
It is a God-given choice.
(Entry for Essay Writing Contest)