Are Politicians Fulfilling Promises After Election

BJP’s poll manifesto for 2009 election spawn a serious question in my mind that would they satisfy all the promises? Well, they have assured people a lot and fulfilling the promises, such as raising the tax-free limit to INR 3 lakh a year (higher for women and senior citizens), availability of 35 kg rice or wheat at INR 2 per kg for Below Poverty Line [BPL] families per month, rebuilding of Ram temple at Ayodhya, opportunity of religious tourism, abrogation of Article 370 giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir, starting of pension scheme for farmer, Improvement of law and order in Orissa, New housing policies for Chandigarh, Free mobiles to poor, broadband to all for INR 200 and one crore free laptops with open source softwares, would be a Herculean task in today’s global recession and in the midst of numerous other tribulations. Did not they, political parties, think before committing? It was NDA today, may be UPA or any others’ turn tomorrow. All are same and promises the moon before the polling dates.

However do they abide by their words? If not, should not they be jailed or sued for not satisfying their promises once the election gets over and they are elected?

According to me, the answer should bring a positive reaction from every possible quarter, except from the corrupted politicians only. They kindle a hope in people’s mind that whatever the sorrow and difficulties they are facing would be abolished if they get into power. People, in order to reduce their woes, also support them. However, at the end of the day, the same politicians after winning the polls don’t even recognize the same people to whom they went begging for vote collection before the election!

The politicians show a ray of hope to common men and within a period of few months, take away every inch of expectations brutally. They maliciously murder all the hopes of a common man. When one businessman contracts with another, he has to abide by all the regulations and fulfill all his obligations mentioned in the agreement paper as he has approved it beforehand. If not, the other party can legally claim compensation in any form such as monetary or physically. Here also, same justice should be handed over. So what if the politicians do not enter into any legal or written commitment? They engage the whole media and in front of lakhs of citizens, take oath to satisfy all their promises. These should be taken into notice also as these are important evidence, depending upon whom, the court can give punishment to the accused politicians. These instances should be established and then only, the politicians will think twice before promising something which they also know is impossible for them to provide. Then the play of fooling around the innocent Indian citizens could be stopped. The precedence should be set and as soon as possible...