In Tamilnadu, we usually have two broad festive seasons every year, and a separate festival once in five years. Every festival of course has its own bundle of practices and tradition. This semi decadal assembly election festival too is no way inferior to those. The election at Tamilnadu is usually packed with pledges and promises. Wow. Every candidate makes romantically overwhelming promises in front of masses, to establish their candidature and attract votes. However, almost all elections have been predictable to some extent. But this election, the Tamilnadu assembly election 2016 is proving to be a peculiar one right from its early days of announcements. The people of Tamilnadu aka the voting population seem to be indifferent this time. The possible reasons should be either the fallacy in the manifestoes or the confusion in deciding their choice.
The politicians are as usual busy with their pre-poll pledges, most of which being counter-productive and absurd. The VIBGYOR of promises range from the cheap freebies to ultra-controversial bans. There are many significant and absolutely anti significance absurdities in this rainbow.
BJP promised to bring back Jallikattu (Bull taming) at Tamilnadu. Oxymoron. The ruling party is already playing a major role in banning the sport once and for all, and have banned beef in some states its ruling. We as tomorrow’s voters have no idea how this promise would become an action.
Liquor ban is the next prominent topic politicians have taken today. The ruling AIADMK party promised a gradual ban of alcohol. But the opposing DMK has promised a total prohibition of the same (the thing we hadn’t even dreamt of). Tamilnadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) has literally been the back bone of the state’s income, yielding around 27,000 crore INR every year. The giant holds 6823 retail outlets and 41 depots and employment of 29,297 employees. I wish the pledgers must have devised some erudite alternatives to supplement this revenue before promising.
DMK’s manifesto also promised the complete waiver of educational loans, from both central and state government institutions, LCD televisions, tablets and laptops with 3G/4G connections and 10 GB/month download options for 1,600,000 students. As usual a manifesto filled with freebies, a complete deterrence to voters.
Vijayaraj Naidu aka Captain Vijaykanth has displayed his mind-blowing leadership skills in his manifesto. Captain led third front, otherwise called ‘People Welfare Front’ has given a list which include sending 5,000 farmers abroad every year to learn latest farming techniques and increasing the per capita income of 12,620 villages to 25,000 INR p.m. It also highlighted the reduction in oil prices, Petrol to Rs.45 per litre and diesel to 35.
Oh My God! DMDK Manifesto, Genre: Fiction.
Srilankan Tamilians have become a plaything in the hands of today’s politicians. AIADMK has promised to stress the ruling centre to negotiate with Sri Lanka and provide dual citizenship for the Tamilians of Eezham. The other parties have also stressed this same point, but in different way to bring the separate Eezham for the refugees and stop the fishermen getting slaughtered by Lankan navy.
On the other hand, some completely outlandish promises like DMDK’s promise about a week’s holiday for Pongal (Festival) celebrations, ADMK’s promise to give 50% discount in mopeds’ price for ladies, BJP’s eight gram gold giving proposal for eligible ladies have infuriated the voters. Continuous check-ups and raids brought to light the money and materials reserved for distribution to voters. Recent capture of 570 crores INR in three trucks has turned all spotlights towards Tirupur, Tamilnadu. All these added oil to the flame.
According to leading political analysts, AIADMK which is supposed to win this election, has not put enough efforts. This overconfident gesture of the party reflected by the delay in the release of election manifesto, changing the candidates in many constituencies and restricting campaigns in some areas, has largely reduced its possibility of winning. On the other hand, DMK taking over social media for advertising and making continuous efforts in campaigns has strived really hard to wipe the stains left by the 2G scam. DMDK led PWF is trying to give tough competition with its flashy-but-imaginary pledges, filing in the holes left by the two main fronts. The other front led by Tech savvy Dr.Anbumani Ramadoss also continues to lie from the podiums of 234 constituencies, thus establishing the fourth dimension of the polling sport.
This multi-cornered competition has coloured the assembly elections with confusions. The people are yet to decide about their choice. NOTA too proves unworthy because the candidate with second majority wins that too. Rest is in our hands. Let us not throw the baby out with bath tub water. Let us separate the good from bad, and vote not for bitter today but for a better tomorrow.
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