10th February 2015,
12:08 PM
AAP- 67 BJP- 3 Congress – 0
And so AAP comes back with a bang in Delhi chanting “Panch saal Kejriwal”. People believe that it is a revolution in the Indian Politics and soon it will spread out of Delhi too. The best part about this result is that Congress gets zero seats which clearly proves that if you mess with the public then they won’t forgive you just like the BJP advertisements mentioned, ‘Janta Maaf Nahi karegi’.
This morning when I messaged this in a Whatsup group, one of my friends asked if I was a supporter of AAP. I am not! Why do we need to be a supporter of some party to have an opinion? Just like if we believe in GOD we have to believe in either one among the 33 crore Devi Devtas of Hindus or Jesus of Christians or Allah of Muslims. And if I say, I don’t believe in any of them then I am an atheist. And what if I say I believe in all of them??
Well, I backed up my answer of not supporting any party by saying that ‘I do not believe in any of the politicians, because if someone wants to work for the people then he/she would rather join an NGO and not politics’.
I remember this scene in the Bollywood movie, ‘O My God’, where Akshay Kumar tells Paresh Rawal that “If you snatch the ‘God’ that the people believe in, from them then they will make ‘you’ their God”. And that’s so true with us Indians. If someone snatches ‘Modi’ from us, we find a ‘Kejriwal’ to worship. I don’t say that one should not follow a person, but isn’t it better to follow a mission or a vision? Why can’t we focus on just the work being done and not the party or the person? Most of you might say that ‘Yes, we follow the vision that AAP projects and so we support it’. But soon this support turns into favoritism. You forget about what you started with and end up following the party or the person.
Recently I got to know a bunch of youngsters who started an NGO called ‘Help our people for education Bahuudeshiya Sanstha’ (HOPE). These were a few people who pulled out money from their salaries to help the underprivileged children to get professional qualification or medically needy but financially poor people to get medical aid. I thought of writing about them on www.thebetterindia.com and so joined their whatsup group. It was an unbelievable experience. If anyone from the group found a well deserved kid who needed help, then the information was posted in the group and without asking the caste, the religion or the party which the kid’s family belonged to, all the group members stretched their hand out to help. HOPE also works for rural development and under this program they distribute solar lights to the villagers. This time the company which delivered them these solar lights were out of stock. I found another person in Delhi who was doing a similar work for the slums in Delhi through an article on The Better India. The only difference was that Anusheela used to distribute solar LED bags to the slum kids. I approached her for a few bags with a limited budget. Again without asking my caste or religion or party, she offered to find a cosponsor and get the bags within the budget that we had.
These people were working without supporting ‘Modi’ or ‘Kejriwal’. They were just working for the people. They were not working to make Delhi or Mumbai or any other city of our country, ‘a world class city’. They were working to make India, ‘a world class country’. They do not promise to make your electricity bills half, but they do their bit to give light to the parts of the country where there is no electricity at all.
Let’s stop relying on a person or a party. Let’s start it by doing our bit towards the nation!
