Elections and social media: people cheering in celebration of their own failures

It is a kind of misfortune for a clean democracy that now elections are not fought on real issues. Only political parties are not at fault in this. In fact, now voters are also moving away from the real issues. In the era of social media, now WhatsApp is our Ramayana and Mahabharata. Whatever comes on WhatsApp Purana, that is now true for us voters, everything else is a lie.

To a large extent, the Karnataka election showed that the real issues are still alive, but Hindi speaking states are yet to understand this. They still flow with the electoral wind. They do not want any real issue in the election, rather they like to indulge in emotional or religious controversies.

This is the reason why the BJP has decided in the past that in Madhya Pradesh, especially in Rajasthan, it will tilt some stars popular in the social media towards its side and will campaign through them. Nowadays nothing else happens in the name of propaganda, but the condemnation and criticism of the other party is considered as its own propaganda.

The BJP has also almost decided that through these social media masters, it will tell the people about the atrocities committed by the Congress during the Emergency. Almost fifty years have passed since the Emergency, but in the absence of their policies and public welfare schemes, political parties nowadays go on counting the shortcomings of others. BJP is also doing the same and other parties too.

The reality is that we common people have forced the political parties to do so. We do not want anyone to contest elections on issues. In fact, talking on real issues now seems like a boring speech to us. We do not have time to think about them now. Under the pressure of our hollow thoughts, we have made our whole routine dull, fake and showy.

We are no longer able to recognize the real or the reality. Because as soon as we talk about the real, our fakeness is also afraid of being exposed badly. Political parties do regular surveys and they contest elections on the same issues that we want. Overall, our desire has become fake. It has become lighter.

Political parties actually want the same. His only mantra is to divert people from the real issues. … and they have completely succeeded in this objective. Our failure is hidden in his success. In true sense, in every election, political parties celebrate the failure of us common people and it is a pity that we keep on clapping enthusiastically in the celebration of our own failure.