2009 General Elections: Are You A Good Citizen?

Date: Thursday, 5 March, 2009, 2:55 PM
Friends,
As educated citizens of this great country of ours, this is our best chance to take India to its rightful place in the world, as the bell for elections 2009 has tolled. History will not forgive us if we fail. Election day is not a holiday to enjoy but a day to do your solemn duty which is to vote for the right candidate. Here is what we earnestly implore you to do.
DON'T Vote for a party but for an individual who:

has no criminal record past or present even where the judicial system has kept an appeal pending

is neither a fundamentalist nor a communalist. Anyone playing vote bank politics should be shunned

declares in public domain his/her assets including those of immediate family as also IT returns for the past 3 years

signs an affidavit that should he/ she, if elected, fail to fulfill the poll promises then voters can recall him

has the minimum basic education- a graduate. Protagonists of the Aam Aadmi will say that their problems are not understood by the well-off. Sorry, they have got it wrong. The constitution had enshrined that reservations etc would be done away after 25 years but the interested have seen that poverty and uneducated masses remain as they are their best vote bank.

pledges not to interfere with independent bodies like Police force, judiciary, election commission and appoint people to these bodies in a transparent manner based purely on merit.

implement affirmative action rather than caste and creed politics

If an ex serviceman is standing, give him/ her preference above all other candidates and all things being equal- vote the ex serviceman in!!

If an ex-MP, should have atleast 75% attendance, participated in 50% of debates and usefully spent atleast 90% of development fund in his/ her constituency
Come May 16th we should sing Jai Ho! for a job well done!!
Warm Regards!
CK Sharma
Wg Cdr CK Sharma, Member IESM Steering Committee,New Delhi