Rising above political affiliations !

Can and Should we remain apolitical?

Whether we like it or not, we will be governed by some person or the other and by some political party.

The government will take some decisions, some of them will be liked by us, some may not. That applies to all governments, whether we have voted that party or not.

Does it mean we let the government take any decision sitting idle, if we have voted to the party?

Does it mean, we oppose every move by the government we have not voted?

We can say that the answer to both these question are No.

And say that we will remain apolitical and raise questions on dubious decisions and support decision which are taken for the good cause.

But we have to vote only one party in the elections.

Does it mean we don't vote, and remain apolitical?

The country will be in disaster if we don't vote. We will continue to have folks who are elected by people based on cast/religion, ethnicity etc.

We have to vote and we should vote. For voting we need to have a political inclination towards some party or the other and that is not bad.

Every political party is formed to fight for some good cause and has some core values. It means there are some good in most mainstream political parties.

We have so many good parties to chose from?

That looks like a good problem to have. Chose the party with which we can relate most. We don't need to agree to all the philosophies of that party, neither disagree completely with other party.

Since we need to chose one, we have to chose one.

We have voted. Now what?

The party that forms the government, may or may not be of the party we voted.

After the government is formed, we have to behave exactly in the same manner, whether the government is of the party we voted or of some other party.

We need to support good decisions and protest bad ones irrespective of which government is taking the decisions.

Our support and protest needs to be always agenda based. Never be based on party we voted.

While protesting, keep in mind that some decisions are taken for the benefit of a particular section of society and may not be liked by another. Does it mean, we should not protest. We should and let our concerned be heard with some constructive suggestions.

There are hardly any decision that will make every person happy. e.g.  reservations make reserved class happy and unreserved unhappy. Subsidy on electricity/water are liked by people getting it, but tax increase due to this subsidy is not liked by tax paying class.

We have to grow as a society where we agree to live with difference of opinions.

We do not need to endorse either all or none philosophy of a party.

We all should be fine with some folks supporting a cause and some not.

When we all start to support a cause rather than a party, irrespective of which party we vote, we would be living in a much better place and no political party can take advantage of support for their last cause as a guarantee for support to a new one which might be bad.