blame game!

The other day I was debating with my friends on where to go over the weekend for outing and believe me it was like a war! There were only four people and any place would have been absolutely fine with each one of us, but still somehow we had to argue. Then one of us (who had the car) got angry and rest of us had to give up to make sure we get to travel in the car!

And now thinking about it, I am left wondering if managing a group of four is like this, what it must be like to run a country! Crores of people, thousands of political parties, hundreds of leaders and one government- can u imagine thinking about everyone’s emotions and demands? I can just heave a sigh at the mere thought of it.

Suppose government is working on reducing the food price and thinking about taking the stimulus out of market- at the same time, opposition questions each and every move of it; some fellow goes on hunger strike asking for a new state and his so called followers create havoc in the mother state; there is an airplane/train crash in another state; an old politician comes under CBI scanner for a scam of some hundred crore rupees; a party leader in some state vandalizes everything from buses to multiplexes in the name of protecting ‘his’ state’s people; Maoists/ terrorists abduct some innocent people in some state asking government to release their savage brothers in return; internal party strife; sanitary issues in the country; farmer suicides; water and power shortages; corruption; inflation; educational crisis; communal riots; maintaining good GDP rate; cricket versus hockey; natural calamities and this is not all! Relations with other countries have to be maintained by signing different security pacts, getting fuel, acting on climate change, managing import-export etc etc etc.

I agree that this is the very reason we vote and elect a government, so that they overcome all the abovementioned hurdles and run the country smoothly-that’s their job! But I would also say that think twice before blaming it all on the government. Ask yourself some questions- Don’t we get tempted to throw something on roads while traveling in a car/train/local? Don’t we think of getting the registration of house/car faster by shelling out 100-200 bucks ‘extra’? Don’t we try to pacify the traffic police by saying ‘aapas me sambhalte hain na’? How many times have we thought of going to consumer forum for getting duped by a shopkeeper for his low quality products or by a travel agency for its third class service? Forget everything and just think how many times we have voted since we turned 18!

So, I would say while government is trying to do its job, we also have lot of things to do from our side than simply cribbing!