“This Government is a waste body, it doesn’t know how to work. It should act like government and help the people” said a person to me. He continued this for another 15 mins. Then I politely asked him what’s his plan for 17th April. He asked me what’s there on 17th? Any government holidays? Any Jayanti’s? I said “there is a government holiday but it’s not for any Jayanti, its given because it’s voting day for by-elections for Belagavi MP seat. “Oh” he replied and said ” I believe it’s Saturday, so I will go for a small weekend vacation with my family”. I was shocked and asked him ” why are you complaining about government, when you don’t intend to vote”. He said “what will happen with one vote of mine. Nothing is going to change”. I showed him some instances where people won with a margin of one vote. He was zipped and shocked.

A lot of you readers might have witnessed the same situation which I narrated above. It is easy for many of us to speak about negative aspects of government, but when it comes to voting and choosing the right government for us, we maintain social distancing from it. Despite getting a holiday to cast our vote, we choose to skip voting and chill out that day and take elections lightly. But what we forget is that, if we chill for one day, there might be a wrong person elected and will chill for next 5 years.