This article was originally published on 3rd May, 2019.
Today’s politics is less about poverty eradication, employment, education, population control; and more about religion and caste. Any educated member of the society would fail to understand why religion and caste are talked about all the time by strong politicians. Yet almost all listeners are very easily consciously or subconsciously, affected by it.
A very good example would be, if I am a Sikh, I’d like to vote for one in order to have that section of our secular country represented in the parliament.
Now this is acceptable as it in one way or the other, protects the idea of democracy. This is a healthy involvement of religion in politics. Similarly people belonging to a particular caste may vote for a person belonging to that caste.
The point where religion and caste begin to destroy democracy is when politicians start asking for votes only from members of a particular caste or religion. Secularism and democracy are all about representation but that cannot be used as a tool to take majority or minority votes. The entire point of being in politics should be to work for your countrymen. Not for Hindus. Not for Muslims. Not for Jains. Not for Christians. Not for Buddhists. Not for atheists.
Work for Indians not certain sections of the society. Because if that is who you are, you do not deserve to be in a noble profession like politics.
Next time I read a blog, Hopefully it wont fail me as much as this particular one. I mean, Yes, it was my choice to read, however I really believed you would have something helpful to talk about. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something you could fix if you werent too busy searching for attention.
I am truly sorry it disappointed you. I would be very grateful if you could elaborate on why you think it is just a “bunch of whining.” At the moment, India’s reality truly resembles this. I wish the problems of 1 billion people could be fixed single handedly.