General elections are going to be held. Most likely this time too, it will be Congress party leading a coalition government at the Centre. But can you really trust them?
Having ruled the country for more than 45 years since Independence, they hardly have any achievements to claim for. Each year, there are more people below the poverty line, half of India's children are malnourished, corruption is rampant, basic education is inaccessible to almost half of India's children, infrastructure is shoddy.
They always bring up sops for the poor in their manifestos, adorned slogans like "Garibi Hatao", but do they care after they are elected? Even if they care, do they ensure that all their programs to alleviate poverty and uplift the poor are being implemented within a definite timeframe and that the funding for these programs is really being used constructively? The middlemen consume more than half of this money and there's hardly anything left after that.
These very people who are poor and illiterate are their vote banks. Its in their best interest that they stay illiterate else they will not get elected again.
Sadly, there's a complete vacuum when it comes to electing a leader in this country. Other parties including BJP don't have the leaders who can take this country forward and bring prosperity, which is very sad.
I do believe that other parties should get a fair chance to run the country. It is time we think beyond the Congress party and dream of India that is prosperous, secure and secular.
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