The Chief Election
Commissioner of India,
An open letter to CEC
Elections, Allurements &Freebies in
Delhi elections
Dear Sir,
Dt 30/1/2015
The basic
purpose of establishing governments is to develop the nation and empower the
people naturally. Elections are a process to elect worthy guardians to
establish responsible governments capable of fulfilling the socio-economic
requirements of the Constitution (Article 38). Article 38 is fundamental in the
governance of the country (Supreme Court).
[“Dole-out of freebies vitiates the electoral process and shakes the
root of free and fair elections,” said a Supreme Court bench of learned
Justices P. Sathasivam and Rajan Gagoi (TOI, 6 July, 2013, clipping 42A)].
Present election
manifestoes: Waiver of bills or highly subsidised prices of water and
electricity. Free Plots, Flats, Pucca Houses at slums. More food subsidies and
many more!? Indeed a great invite to migrants and their generous
rehabilitation, even the most benevolent Kings of their times would not have
ventured. And then what shall be left of Delhi after all this!?
Sir, if Freebies and
Allurements (Metaphors of Bribes) are not banishes India shall only dwindle.
Past 68 years are witness how gradually the nation is pushed to present
shambles. The poor shall become poorer as all the money with the exchequer
shall be lost on unproductive heads and only little left for development or to
build infrastructure and facilities to naturally empower the poor. Already more
than 100 crore of our people are destitutes or impoverished. Officially also
government is obliged to feed at least 67%of our people through Mid-Day Meals,
MGNREGA, Loan Waivers, Food Security and Food Subsidy Schemes and many more.
The pathetic conditions of our government schools and the poor education system
of our country are no secret. Everything India is creaking and dilapidating. It
is a matter of shame for all Indians. Imagine what we shy to talk ourselves,
President Obama travelling 13,500 km has conveyed to us about our poverty,
‘liberty and dignity’ and splintering fraternity. He also talked of our
Constitution that we seem to have forgotten.
Sir, I know you also
want to see your country prosperous and people happy and satisfied. Please then
make your elections due process purposeful and meaningful. Now the reins are
with you please do what can make country progress and people happy? Delhi is
already destroyed with 60 lacs juggi dwellers already authorised. Fresh
freebies in terms of regularising the remaining colonies shall only make Delhi
totally unliveable with rising Jhuggi and jhopar pattis and so
also footpath vendors, hawkers, rehris, and daily and weekly
footpath markets every nook and corner of the city and in the midst of
residential colonies.
Sir, not only we are belittled in
our own eyes for our dismal performance; we shall also be shamed by the
posterity for the shambles we shall leave behind. Sir, your
decision now shall determine the future course of our country.
I hope Election commission
shall be Judicious in addressing such issues prudently and set right the
earlier wrongs in the interest of the nation and wellbeing of its large
impoverished and famished populace.
Thanks and Regards.
Sincerely yours
K C Agrawal
9810191394
Author
of: 'It’s Time to Implement the
Forgotten Constitution of India for 'Liberty and Dignity’
