Election Campaigns: Investment, Knowledge and Politics
Nothing on earth is
immortal, not even the earth herself because she was born too - irrespective of
the birth process. There are political boundaries on earth made by people where
several governments run in their own styles and usually think themselves above
the natural government. It is up to you to decide if any government on earth is
seriously above the natural government. But coming back to the governments run
on the earth, I felt it interesting to discuss the election campaigns - birth
processes for the governments, in terms of Investment, Knowledge and Politics.
Few months back, I
heard a dialogue in a movie- Election campaigns are the investments made by the
politicians and it is their every right to think about their returns from it in
every way possible. This changed my perception on politics. If the politicians
take election campaigns as their investments, the ones who will suffer the most
will be public. It is an untold truth that the money for the election campaigns
come from the major/minor business houses and then prices of products go up to
make up that money, facilitated by the campaigners. But then, what becomes most
humorous is that politicians deliver in their speech that it is a tradition
worldwide that prices increase during election but don’t speak about the origin
of that tradition.
The electoral
discussions Barack Obama and Mitt Romney had might be fresh only in many minds
talking specifically about the education policies, taxation policies- as
economy was going through bad times, health and insurance policies. The
reflection of their knowledge regarding their country and their policies were
awesome. Getting back to our electoral campaigns, the parties have their
activities- constructing a railway line from east to west, attaining the
economic growth of 7 percent, making Nepal Switzerland in 10 years and making
her one of the developed nations in 20 years, using the remittance of the
country in productive sectors, flourishing the investment environment…How? The
procedures are not there.
The knowledge level of
our leaders got public last week when in a television program, politicians from
all three major parties were asked about the cost of construction of railway
line. Nobody had an answer to that; rather they still kept blaming each other
on to why no further work with the railway projects could take place- that must
be a way to switch the topic though. Besides that, no individual explains how
the ambitious growth rate of 7.0 % is going to be attained. Why our leaders do
not want to develop Nepal and leave it as Nepal only is another point to
ponder, is it true that Nepali people want to develop the country and make it
some other country?
(Note: This article was published in Perspectives of The Himalayan Times)
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