"Make Voting Compulsory"-Shree Balasaheb Thackeray, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.
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This mornings Times of India 3 May 2009 has a write up by senior journalist Ambrish Mishra , a very interesting one giving the sage view point of Shree Bala Saheb Thackeray..its a pity no one else ever thought of this ..
"Make Voting compulsory..."
An excerpt from the article..
"Not casting vote should be declared an offense .How can 35 %to 40% people determine the country's future?''
I wont copy further but these are strong words of wisdom, as the long weekend saw most of the Mumbai denizens doing the vanishing act..
The attitude of some Mumbaikars was really disheartening , I shot a pictures of the various political party counters at Bandra Bazar Road , and it was really dismal.
A person told me she would not vote as corrupt people came in either way, whether she voted or she did not vote..this was a young educated girl..
Reforms need to be bought in and Shree Balasaheb Thackeray has uttered the words of the common man , who suffers under the burden of a government that does not get a full mandate and politics of appeasement and convenience come to play.
Politics is about Money and Money play..money changes hands votes en bloc are bought by politicians from touts and the mafia that has muscled in this lucrative trade ..and it happens under the nose of those who will lead us in Parliament.
If people can bet on which government is going to come to power you can imagine the rest of the scenario.. And I write this with a pain of being a Mumbaikar blogger and a pedestrian poet of photography.
26/11 was conveniently forgotten for the beaches of Alibagh , Murud Janjira..Goa and Ratnagiri.
Happy faced, tanned , the hordes who let us down , our country down will return on Monday morning ..cursing a sucked system that they have created through their apathy and lack of civil and social awareness.
God Bless You Balasaheb.. this from all of us concerned Mumbaikars..
