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Election process has practically crossed half way mark and is fast pacing towards the final phase of voting.
A feeling of cheerfulness is dawning on the vast population. A very distinct smell of change is there in the air. People are waiting to put on their dancing shoes and dance with gay abandon once the election results are out. Results are more of an official exercise. The mood is already visible. One can see the desperation on faces that were boastful a couple of weeks ago. They had the temerity to declare the results even before the election process had started. So much so that a hundred days post-election agenda was set. Wish they had an agenda during the last ten years other than putting the country in an unenvious position. Maybe they should start preparing for the next elections. A politician thinks of net elections. A statesman thinks of net generation.
Business apart, election time is fun time. You hear so many claims, counterclaims, quotes, mis quotes. It makes you day. Not to be taken seriously but with a fun quotient.
Like a politician-a claimant to Chanakya legacy-was assuring of annexation of POK into India once his party is re elected. Maybe he could have promised more exotic places like Maldives, Tahiti, Mauritius etc. Politician can always create old connections of our country with other countries. This would have ensured his party some extra votes or maybe incited some to vote.
No body is going to remember the assurances once the elections are over. Why not have fun when the exercise is on. More so when we have a glamorous film star candidate who frequently throws controversial and sometimes comical offences at her rival. Or for that matter a novice in politics who transformed East Indians into Chinese and South Indians into Africans.
The cake goes to the politician just out of jail on bail for electioneering. As per him, his core committee was chalking out plans on how to go about the proposed fast. And we were under the impression that going on fast simply meant you do not eat or drink anything.
This can go on endlessly.
Finally, vote sensibly and have lots of fun.
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