What ever you may say or think about my statement, to me democracy stands for giving authority to people and respecting what ever the out come of that authority. We recently saw the results of 2009 general elections and how the rejected parties and people accepted the defeat quietly, including so called hard liners. There are many democracies we saw in recent times whose participants just could not accept the defeat and choose to protect the people’s verdict. But fortunately our democracy is not one of those and people and parties still stick to some basic principles of democracy, except for some insignificant people and parties who choose to air their views disregarding the people’s verdict. 

To my knowledge in India people’s verdict was always respected, except for the times when emergency period declared by Mrs.Indira Gandhi. Though there are different theories about the tendency of the Indian voters voting based on the caste and region.

ఎన్నికలు అయిపోయ్యాయి గోల్లుగిల్లుకోవడం చేతగాక ఎన్నికల తరువాత పొత్తుల గురించి అందరూ మాట్లాడుతున్నారు, కాని నాది ఒక చిన్న సందేహం, ప్రజాస్వామ్యం లో ఎన్నికల తరువాత పొత్తులు సమ్మతమేనా? మిగతా అన్ని పార్టీ ల మీద వాటి నాయకుల మీద చిరాకేసి నేను లోకసత్తా కు ఓటు వేసాను అనుకోండి, వాళ్ళు ఇప్పుడు వెళ్లి ఈ కాంగ్రెస్ తోనో లేక తెలుగు దేశం తోనో పొత్తు పెట్టుకొంటే నేను వేసిన ఓటు తప్పుగా ఉపయోగించుకున్నట్టేగా?

డీజీపీ మహంతి పుణ్యమా అని పోలీసులందరు హీరోలు అయిపోయి,ఓ కష్టపడి ఎవరనేది చూడకుండా గాలించేసి డబ్బులూ,మందు,నగలు పట్టుకొని కేసులు బుక్ చేసి సంతోషపడుతున్నారు.కాని ఆలోచిస్తుంటే అనిపిస్తుంది మందు పట్టుకోవటం వరకు మంచిదే కానీ ,డబ్బు,నగలు పట్టుకొని కోర్ట్‌లలో దాచి పెట్టడం వల్ల ఎవరికీ లాభం లేదేమోనని.
అందరికి తెలిసి,ఒప్పుకున్న విషయం ఏమిటంటే ఎన్నికలలో పంచె /ఖర్చు పెట్టె డబ్బాంత నల్లధనం. లెక్కల్లో లేని ధనం బయట పదే మార్గం ఎనికలోక్కీటే కదా. ఈ నిఘా వల్ల నల్ల ధనం బయట పదే ఓ ప్రదాన మార్గం మూసుకుపోయిందేమో.
అలా అన్నానని నేనెదో అప్రజాస్వామిక వాదిని కాదని ఓట్లు కొనదాన్నిప్రోత్సహిస్తున్నానని నన్ను నిందించే ముందు ఓసారి ఆలోచించండి, నల్ల ధనం బయట పెట్టె సరైన మార్గం,వ్యవస్థ విధానం లేనప్పుడు తప్పో ఒప్పో ఉన్నదానికి కొనసాగానివాడం ఒక్కటే మార్గమేమో.
అదీ కాకుండా ఓటు వెయ్యడానికి డబ్బు తీసుకొని,తీసూకున్నవళ్ళంతా ఓటు వేస్తారని నేను అనుకోవటంలేదు.ఎందుకంటే మనజనం తెలివి మీరిపోయి యధా రాజా తధా ప్రజా అన్నట్టు చెప్పిన మాట నిలబెట్టుకోవడం మానేశారు ఎప్పుడో

After seeing honest and successful persons(Shashi Tharror, Cpt. Gopinath and lot of more people) jumping into politics and contesting in this general election, I am seriously giving a thought to the advantages of changing the way we choose our government. After electing parties for 60+ years, we have gave them enough chance to prove their worth. But sadly they failed miserably by concentrating more on politics than on the job they supposed to do. I think its a good idea to give a chance to persons to serve us by giving them a freehand in choosing their cabinet just like in US by not restricting them to choose from elected members of the parliament. Then at least we can have someone in cabinet level who knows what they are talking.

Yes, I agree this change is virtually impossible in present political setup in India, as this needs lots and lots of constitutional amendments. But I still hope this happens for bringing us some good.

I just finished watching Mr. Advani’s press conference about bringing back Indian money in foreign banks specially in the famed Swiss banks. He made a request to PM to raise this issue in G20 summit and also promised that he will act on this issue if gets power after the general elections. Not sure how Mr. Singh is going to react to this rare and rather constructive advise from the opposition leader. We in India hear such suggestion coming from opposition in or out side the parliament. Though I don’t doubt Mr. Singh’s integrity or his wisdom, I doubt the forces which he allowing to influence him.

May be its just a rumor, but I hear a lot of times from different sources that Indian corrupt politicians are first in the line to keep their “hard” earned money in these foreign accounts. As a individual I don’t like Mr. Advani but I like this latest promise he made, time to decide how he will fulfill this promise.

One thing I want to highlight about our electronic media, they telecast the entire conference live, but after the conference the anchor who was reporting this as “breaking news”, forgot summarize what the conference was for, and was only able to memorize that Mr. Advani was reluctant to talk about Varun Gandhi.

Do we really need a third alternative? After seeing governance of congress and BJP prime ministers in the past decades I prefer to see a third party coming to power with new set ideas. Here I prefer a new individual than a party, I want that option coming from something else other than what congress and BJP are offering in this general election. Yes, we need to have one third alternative.

Somehow before every general election politicians start talking about third political alternative and they call it third front. Any layman like me, with a closer look at that third front can understand its just a groups of opportunists without any common principles. Well I am not sure if any of them has any real principles, but at least what they talk about. Now and then they even toss the word secular alliance, ha..ha..ha.. that’s a big joke to me. How come they talk about secularism and not even mention of common civil code in this 60+ year old country. Now a days even BJP stopped talking about common civil code. I reckon for any country to be called as secular, common civil code is a must.

Coming back to third alternative, we really don’t have any third alternative as of now in this country. I hate to say, BSP is coming close to get that spot. Why I hate BSP? Basically one hates BJP because of its hindutva hard line stance, why not BSP for its caste based politics? Yes I hate BSP.