Pre Election Fever!

With elections approaching, I see posts supporting PTI, PML-N, PPP and Pervaiz Musharraf more often than ever on my news feed. The media going crazy with a repeat telecast of speeches by all our so called leaders and all I see is Imran Khan and Either of Sharif brothers criticizing on each other’s steps and statements more than their own, on the other hand the son of Mr.10%, with a flagrant Urdu accent claims to promote Bhutto’s legacy, conversely the deliberation of our beloved dictator to be in power again has made the highlights of our commercialized media.

They keep promoting their ideologies and ‘marketing’ their promises while struggle to prove the other wrong! I for one am tired to see the parties fighting and their supporters having arguments on their behalf! Is it Pakistan we are fighting for? If yes, aren’t we on the same page? Don’t all of us need the same thing? If the ideologies of the various political parties differ, why can’t our ‘great leaders’ work simultaneously to come to a mutual consensus, why does a need to ‘insult’ or ‘oppose’ the other arise?

A question that bothers me, if these leaders can’t even clear their own disputes, if people from their own party shift to another [applicable for both PML-N and PTI] because of some disgruntled demands or some conflicts in beliefs, how do they plan to run an entire nation with a variety of people with different set of beliefs so much eager and desperate for change that they might have no patience at all left in them to cooperate!

I’m not an expert in politics, I hardly know the conspiracies that are part of it, but this fact makes me a part of the majority of Pakistan. True that media uncovers and exposes a lot, but can you really say it’s all believable? Another question then arises, is media reliable? Let us not talk about the credibility of media and move our focus back to Politics.

We are more concerned about the personal lives of our potential leaders, about their furnished homes and their marital status than the things that actually matter! We talk about them with no respect at all; we make our perception based on one fact utterly overlooking the big fat verity of it being wrong! One bad decision and we lose hope, one world cup and we think everything else is a piece of cake.

Corruption doesn’t keep a man from doing well for a country, people who think so are wrong! If someone in power does his job well and then benefits from that position, why can’t we understand it might be worth it, and when someone comes up with a hope and great plans, why can’t we actually give him a chance.

I’m neither against Imran Khan or Shahbaz Shareef, I think they’re both good leaders and would take this country to a better place than it is right now…Although I am also aware of the fact that PML-N has taken wrong turns in the past and those wrong decisions have put a lot at stake but Imran khan on the other hand has majority of the journalists against him, he has no or lets be modest and say a limited control over a government and even when in power, there is a fair possibility that he fails to achieve all that he has promised, not because the man is incapable but because change isn’t as easy as it seems.

People who’re against PML-N continuously condemn the Metro bus project, they keep highlighting the downturns in regards to the daily rent payable to turkey and the shifting of routes and in no way appreciate or even consider it might actually have benefited a few millions of people who commute daily using that particular transport. Furthermore the supporters of PML-N are in denial towards all the wrong decisions made by the party; they have a counter point to every mishap caused and every erroneous act. When it comes to PTI, its supporters aren’t any better. Claiming their decisions to be more ‘civilized’ and rational than the rest and underestimating the supporters of all other parties. The so called educated people who fail at maintaining a decent argument!

Today the world is very much awake; it is more aware and conscious than it ever was. It’s not just Imran Khan who brought ‘josh’ in the youth it’s the media and the expanding social networks that have encouraged all individuals to participate, whether politics or economics, you would see a tremendous increment in the turnout so people stop being ‘jazbati’ and start being ‘logical’.

Voting is a personal matter, save your vote for whoever you think is better and deserves it, if it bothers you to see people following leaders who according to you are less capable than convince them by giving sound arguments but accusations and personal attacks would only aggravate them, and it’s not even an educated man’s approach.

Looking forward to a fair election; may the odds be in our favor!!