When you were a child,
(irrespective of what your age is today) you must have read this statement-
“India is a developing nation.” When I was a child, I too had read the same;
and a slap of sarcasm to our glorious nation is that children today are also
reading the same sentence. In the course of these years as we grew up many
things changed- new states emerged, foreign cultures walked into our mother
land, women started initiating things, economies shuffled, sensex rose and
fell, gold, silver, platinum and fossil fuels decreased and of course the rupee
too painfully fell on its chin.
Recalling the past decade, what
fills us in context of our nation, its problems and solutions is a big black
spot. Considering the past two general elections when our nation’s common
people, standing in the voters’ queue moved a feet ahead in every two minutes,
inching closer to the ballot box, their ears reverberated with the words of
promises made by their netas. Their lips curved with an optimistic smile of
hope of the coming future and happily after exercising their franchise they
returned back home suffering the bumps of the battered road- perhaps for the
last time!
They waited for weeks after the
government took its chair in the centre and painfully for the aam aadmi, also better termed as ‘The
Mango Man’ (by the same government that they elected) they were forgotten to
live in their same piteous state with their same persistent problems. The
white-kurta-men had successfully sucked the pulp of their Mango-men and tossed away the remains. The promises made,
strategies laid and development thought was annihilated in their brain itself.
Something, ‘if’ ever carved on paper was served to termites and roaches in
moist office files in a damp cabin.
They say, after a bad day comes a
glad day. On a similar account, when the nation lost all hopes of development,
welfare and services from the ruling government there emerged a savior whom the
common man named ‘NaMo’. He was better known for his strategic planning,
faithful serving and visionary approach. A wave of support erupted
simultaneously for him from all parts of the nation and the Mango-man saw a better future coming.
His rallies started happening all across the nation, and everywhere a plethora
of the same frustrated-yet-hopeful Mango-men
emerged for his glimpse.
He was the nation’s favorite,
only until the recent cabinet elections in Delhi saw another young man and his
party’s (Aam Aadmi Party) uplift with
a broom to clean off the corruption. Now here at this cross-road, though a climax
situation prevails amongst people about the upcoming government in Delhi, but
on the contrary there are two parties struggling hard enough to prove their
worth and stake to serve the nation after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
For the first time in all these
years, it gives the common man a feeling that no matter who wins, A or B, the
nation and it’s long sucked Mango-men
will finally reap some benefits. Whether the nation will chant the NaMo mantra
for the coming five years or take in hand the Aam Aadmi’s broom- definitely
both will do enough good to change the statement in our textbooks to-“India is
a developed nation.” No matter how sullen our past was, but, our country will
prosper now.
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