In India, cricket is much more then mere a sport. Not only any particular region of this country but almost every part of it, praise this game. And, today it’s three days, when the IPL again smashed the mentality of Indian Cricket fans. Almost 5-6 matches are already played and a lot more to be.
These days, there is one more activity that is simultaneously going on in India. It's the general elections, which is going to decide the fate of this country for the next five years. The first phase of the elections is already held in various states and the rest four others are yet to be happen.
About a month ago, the schedule of IPL matches are not finalized due to clashes of the dates of both IPL matches and general elections. At that time, Indian government asked the IPL authorities to delay the schedule of IPL matches till the general elections get over. There are various security reasons behind it and its good to postpone the IPL Program; as in future, if any mishap occurs due to this reason, then it would result into an indigestible situation.
But due to busy schedule of cricketers all over the world (and probably the huge profits involved in this event), IPL authorities denied the request and scheduled the whole program in South-Africa, instead of being organized it in India, at two months later.
They have taken this decision bluntly because IPL authorities know that, for Indians, cricket is much more superior to elections. And, it really doesn’t matter where the matches are to be conducted.
And today when the matches are being played, it is very much cleared that they are right..!!
Sometimes, I surprised by the point that we Indians, do really care about this country or indirectly to themselves.
It’s because, any country’s fate is the fate of its people. But Instead of thinking about the political party / political leader to whom we need to vote, we prefer to think for the IPL team which is going to win the tournament in the nearby future.
At the same time, we also need to focus on the point that why masses are more attracted towards the IPL / Cricket as compare to the general election which is much more important then anything else.
There may be a hundred of reasons for it, but according to me, it’s the negligence behavior of us towards the politics (Well, again there may be ‘n’ numbers of reason for it, and yes, it differs from person to person). If we generalize the basic reason for it, then, one would be always agreed with the point, that “Indian politics has loosen its standard and get degraded at much lower level as compare to the politics during the time of freedom”.
But we need to think once again.. that we Indians are the part of Indian politics. These politicians are among one of us and if we need to upgrade the standard of Indian politics, then we need to vote and not to vote anyone but the selected one. And, to vote the right candidate is as important as voting itself.
To select the right candidate, we need to have information about him/her. And we would have this information, only when we devote our time to gather it.
Is being curious towards the elections not our duty? Are we don't devoting our time to IPL kind of events instead of utilising it to being aware about the elections.. Yes we are..!! So get awaken, and think; are we devoting our time for the right issues or not..??
Vaibhav..
