Voting - Right or Sin ?

Deciding not to vote is not an uncommon stance in India anymore. In recent decades, the voting percentage in State & Central Elections has hovered between 60% to 65%

Does Voting Right actually our Voice or an Illusion?

We live in a world where we have set an educational benchmark for everything except becoming a Politician. Any illiterate person can be our HR Minister, any Criminal can be our Defence Minister and any rapist can be our Law Minister but on the other hand, even for the office boy vacancy, there is a specific educational qualification required, clean background is required and also police verification is being considered.

India, even after 74 years of Independence, has the most number of Uneducated & Criminals sitting in Parliament & State Legislative Assembly. Talking about facts, nearly 50 percent of MP's in the new Lok Sabha (2019) have criminal records, and these people will rule and command the entire system and will create Laws for the Nation.

Highly Qualified bureaucrats like IAS, IPS, IFS, Defence Personals, etc who reach their positions, after successfully completing the world's toughest examinations (UPSC, SSC, NDA, CDS, etc) are working under these uneducated people and have to follow their command and instructions.

Actually, the Democratic System is an Illusion of giving people a choice between two-party systems. Even if you vote for an Individual but the reality is that you end up giving your powers to the hands of a Corrupt Political Organisation. 

It's not hidden from any one of us that how cash, liquor, gifts are being distributed to voters during election campaigning, by all the parties. In every election multiple luring attempts and promises are done by Politicians like “All farmer's loans will be written off"; “Housing for all”; “No more power cuts”; “Black Money to come back from Swiss Accounts”; "Distribution of Freebies"; "Employment generation for all sector" and so on. Politicians' promises wipe out as soon as Elections are over and hardly anything changes on the ground for a common person.

Even after decades of Independence, India is suffering from its own Crony Capitalism. Facts say that two-thirds of people in India live in poverty: 68.8% of the Indian population lives on less than $2 a day. Over 30% even have less than $1.25 per day available and they are considered extremely poor. This makes the Indian subcontinent one of the poorest countries in the world. This is all because of the misuse of power by corrupt and illiterate politicians sitting at the throne.

Conclusion: This party or that party, nothing changes on the ground, for the majority of citizens, the poor become poorer, the rich become more wealthy, and as always the powerless become voiceless. We ourselves elect a Government of the powerful (money-driven corrupt people), for the Elite section of society. 

Giving voters’ slips once in five years does not make it a Democracy.