Its Election time

MP, Rajasthan, Delhi, and CG, apart from being a part of Republic of India the have one more thing common this time, all these states have state assembly elections this time. On one side we have BJP ruling states (MP, CG, and RJ) and other side we have Congress rule (Delhi). These election will be a major indication of the next year's national elections.

I always like reading about politics and on and off screen stories in a number of news papers. This year, being in US it was not that easy but thanks to revolution information technology that I can read all those stories here as well. Sometime I do feel nostalgic reading those stories, and finding myself at home reading tidbits and depth stories of India Politics. This time two news stories attracted me and surprised me-

1. This was a coverage of MP elections, which says this time election is more about the local issues that involves development, education and basic supplies rather then what we have seen in history of the state. I have seen and read about the past when elections were more about national issues or some time emotional issues, but these elections are like a breeze in desert of the politics of central India. I am just hoping for this trend to continue for future.

2. This shows a real face of the silent heroes of the country, this story is from Narayanpur, CG. This district is infamous for Naksalite influence and in past I read stories about these guys killing people those who went for voting. It has been a long story of blood and ballot there, people have been killed, some have lost their fingers but still there is a passion about voting. These people mainly belong to SC and ST and then have spent their life in forests of Narayanpur without any modern facility like electricity, school etc. but still their passion for exercising their right to vote is surprising for me when I compare them with the people in South Mumbai, so called posh areas of Delhi, east Indore and many developed cities. I think we all have something to learn from these true champions of carrying forward the dreams of modern India that our grandparents have seen some decades back.