Politics In India
The government politics are extremely sick. In their five year ruling, the government has to think about wellbeing of the poor people or middle families only at the time when elections are near. The whole system is adjusted only to benefit themselves rather the people of India. In all the four years, they have not worked as much as they are doing now. Just when the elections are near, our railway minister made the fares cheaper which will benefit mainly the poor people. Why? Because the people of India needs to know that the government is thinking about them. Now the payments hike for government officials. Lowest salary has been increased, again to benefit those who don’t earn or haven’t got much money. Why? The government wants to improve India’s poverty. The government thinks a lot about the people of India.
Where was this very government in the last 4 years? Why no such benefits at the time they came to power? Why only when the elections are near? And most of these are just a show off which does not involve much work. Reducing the railway fares to 5% is not enough. It is only a discount of Rs.5 in a 100 rupees fare. But the trains still run slow and crappy. The railways are profiting a lot but there is no improvement in the speed of trains, not much improvement in the infrastructure of railways. It is not the price that needs to go down but the infrastructure of railways that needs an improvement. People won’t realise this and will think that “Oh he has done so much for us, he reduced the fares, wow”.
India has increased the education funding, but this year when elections are near. Why? Because government thinks that education is very important for any country’s improvement. But does this realisation comes only when elections are near and not when any government comes to power? India’s literacy rate is 61% whereas America has 99% literacy rate. India is still has a lot of people who are living below the poverty line. Why hasn’t the government doing anything for them? Do they only work at the last years to attempt to get votes in the next election and fill their pockets rest of the years?
Just have a look in the up coming months. Just notice how much work will they do this year. All these are just to get the votes in the next election and nothing else. If they won again, they all will relax for 4 more years and then start working again to get votes in the next election.

March 24th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
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March 27th, 2008 at 5:26 am
Well written, true that the government doesn’t think about any of the services that were promised to the public, but during elections as they start all the projects and try to finish it all before the elections, finally the reason may be anything but we should be happy that something is being done. Anyways this is not the only complain that people have but many such questions arise from every individual. Recently I read some more issues about the malfunctioning of the government in SiliconIndia.com, real interesting one, try to read those may be you will also find that interesting.
March 27th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Well, to be honest the main problem here is that “We are happy”. We shouldn’t be happy with little development. Why will the government care much if we are happy with what we are getting today. The government has enough funds to improve the city quickly but if they want to. They usually end up filling their pockets rather doing anything great.
It is a true fact that the government only responds to crisis. The day we stop being happy with the little progress, we will have a better India, less corrupted India.
Even today 19.3% live under the poverty line. Mind it, 19.3% isnt a lot and even this poverty line is India’s decided - 30 rupees a day for rural areas and less than 50/day for urban population which is far low than world’s standards. If you increase this to meet the world’s standards then you will find nearly 50-70% living under poverty line. It is true. Even today, India only has 61% literacy rate which is pathetic.