Today is election eve and tomorrow is the day of reckoning.
For quite some quite some time, you and I have been debating, sometime in a lighter
vain and sometime quite passionately. I don’t think that the debate can come to
a conclusion any time soon. Only time can tell, whether you were right or I was
right or if both of us were wrong. But what I can do today is state a few facts
and make a last ditch attempts to touch a few chords in your heart that binds
us together.
Fact1. However heated our discussions were; never for once I
doubted that what you want for this nation is different from what I want for
this nation. Our views may be different, our perceptions may be different, our
methods can be different; but at the end, both of us want to make this nation
the greatest nation on earth. Both of us want peace prosperity and security for
each and every individual who loves this nation. I respect you for that, and I
will appreciate if I can get the same from you.
Fact2. You believe AK is the man of destiny, I believe NAMO
is the man of destiny. But I believe NAMO is the man for the moment as well.
Today I want to ask you, to cross your heart and sincerely ask yourself, is AK
the right man for this moment. If your answer is yes, then of course go ahead
and vote for him. But even if you have an iota of doubt about this, then
please, please think twice. This country cannot afford another mistake.
Rationale why AK may not be the man for this moment. Before
voting tomorrow, please listen carefully to what AK has to say. Unlike Delhi,
where he emphatically said that we will win this election, he is not saying
that he will win this election. This is because, AK himself knows that this is
not his time. What he is basically saying that let there be fractured mandate,
so that there is another election by 2016 where he is setting his target on. So
the question is; why he is asking for a fractured mandate. I guess you will
find the answer yourself if you will visualize the scenario yourself. If there
is a fractured mandate, there will be no cohesive force in center. A weak
central government will bring down economy; will indulge in rampant corruption
to stay in power and which will finally result in the breakdown of the already
fragile system named government. AK and his party prosper in that kind of
situation. Just like the so called secular party, who need the fear of Modi to
survive (why will Muslims vote for Mulayam if there was no Modi) AK needs
corruption to run his anti-corruption plank. After all if corruption would not
have touched the gargantuan scale that it was during UPA regime, there
would have been no Anna Movement and AK would have remained just another NGO type. So just like a fish needs water to breathe, AK and his
party needs corruption to prosper. Ironical but true.
But point is, can we really afford to make this situation
from bad to worse so that AK can come as a knight in shining armor and rescue
us from that mess. AK wants to rise as a phoenix from the ashes of the 2014
elections but are we ready the provide the fodder for that fire? Think twice.
For it does not take much for a fire to become a wild fire, an all engulfing, all
destructive, ugly fire.
Happy Voting tomorrow
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