Festival of democracy

It was indeed like a festival day. I and my wife woke up early, finished morning chores, dressed up well and by 7.30 AM, we were part of the long queue outside our polling centre. People of all age groups, genders, ethnicities, religions – the last two wherever easily identifiable by type of their wears- queued up there to exercise their right to franchise. And people had come in large groups, with their family members, friends, neighbours, acquaintances and atmosphere was absolutely festive. There was very good bandobast, but the crowd was highly disciplined, following all the rules and directions.

And by casting our votes, there was a sense of fulfilment on having discharged our responsibility that emanates out of the right granted to us to vote. The scale of elections and their management are something that we as citizens of India should be proud of and our wholehearted participation makes elections meaningful and successful.

We all would have casted our votes to the best of our ability and knowledge to the best candidate, propagating the best ideology. Winning and losing are part of this exercise but let’s pray and hope that the outcome results in the next 5 years of peace, prosperity and progress.