I Refuse To Cast My Vote
I come from India, the largest democracy in the world, and I live in South Africa, one of the newest democracies and it so happens that it is election year in both these countries. Election years bring out all the cruelty and ugliness of the ‘elected’ or those who ‘wish to be elected’ and this is the biggest common factor in both these countries. In India, my home state, Andhra Pradesh, is being bifurcated. Economic development is being sacrificed for vote bank politics. What will a political party, which only wants to stay in power and is headed by a non-Indian woman, know about this region and that their disastrous decision will only work towards the downhill growth of the new state? No, they know nothing and they really do not care. In South Africa, politics is still very race based. The President blamed Apartheid for the country’s slow growth in his State of the Nation address. Politicians are busy playing dirty to a level that they criticize the clothes their competitors