In the recent past there has been an uptrend in resigning and re-contesting of the political leaders. The resignations are often being done under the name of pride – may it be personal, family or regional pride. There has been a number of such instances during the Telangana agitation, Jagan’s family fude etc. Each time a leader resigns there definitely will be a re election. In most of the cases the resigned leader contests again and gets elected. If someone is protesting for something and resigning from a post to achieve that, what is the point in contesting again for the same position in the re election, without achieving the purpose? Also, if you cannot achieve something while you are in power, how the hell are you going to achieve it when you shed it?
Each re-election is a burden on the economy. Crores of rupees of the public money go down the drain. It also gives a way for the politicians to make their black money white. Crores of rupees are being distributed to the voters during every election. This is nothing but pumping money into the system. This results in inflation.
The electronic and print media have lots of fun during this period. This is a good time to increase the TRP ratings and circulations. They get to cover hot stories and visuals of cock-fights between the contestants, galli leaders distributing money to voters, foolish supporters of each party quarrelling with the other party supporters. All these people never understand or acknowledge how big an impact these elections have on our economy. The country is facing much bigger problems than a Jagan’s family pride or a KCR’s Telangana pride.
There should be strict laws forbidding a resigned leader from contesting the polls for the next 5 or 10 years. With such laws, the politicians realize how big a loss it is. Not for the country but for them. That deters them from resigning their posts for any silly reason. If this cannot be done, the leaders of other parties shouldn’t contest in re-elections, at least when they know that the defeat is inevitable. We had a similar instance in the recent Kadapa elections. The sentiment for Jagan was so strong that any sane person would have predicted the defeat of the Congress and TDP in the by election. After the election result both the parties expressed a similar view – ‘we know we would lose, because money and the power played a bigger role there’. If these guys knew they would lose, they shouldn’t have contested in the first place. The election of Jagan would have been unanimous and this would have saved a lot of public money. Unfortunately we will continue to see or forced to see such incidents just because our law makers are the law breakers. The situation can be changed only if the voters become strong enough not to accept bribes and use their heads properly.
Each re-election is a burden on the economy. Crores of rupees of the public money go down the drain. It also gives a way for the politicians to make their black money white. Crores of rupees are being distributed to the voters during every election. This is nothing but pumping money into the system. This results in inflation.
The electronic and print media have lots of fun during this period. This is a good time to increase the TRP ratings and circulations. They get to cover hot stories and visuals of cock-fights between the contestants, galli leaders distributing money to voters, foolish supporters of each party quarrelling with the other party supporters. All these people never understand or acknowledge how big an impact these elections have on our economy. The country is facing much bigger problems than a Jagan’s family pride or a KCR’s Telangana pride.
There should be strict laws forbidding a resigned leader from contesting the polls for the next 5 or 10 years. With such laws, the politicians realize how big a loss it is. Not for the country but for them. That deters them from resigning their posts for any silly reason. If this cannot be done, the leaders of other parties shouldn’t contest in re-elections, at least when they know that the defeat is inevitable. We had a similar instance in the recent Kadapa elections. The sentiment for Jagan was so strong that any sane person would have predicted the defeat of the Congress and TDP in the by election. After the election result both the parties expressed a similar view – ‘we know we would lose, because money and the power played a bigger role there’. If these guys knew they would lose, they shouldn’t have contested in the first place. The election of Jagan would have been unanimous and this would have saved a lot of public money. Unfortunately we will continue to see or forced to see such incidents just because our law makers are the law breakers. The situation can be changed only if the voters become strong enough not to accept bribes and use their heads properly.
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