Even if you don’t read papers or watch the news it still is
easy to tell if its time to draw your voter IDs. I have and very likely you too have noticed
in the last few weeks a whole lot of increase in infrastructure work,
particularly asphalting the roads, new sign boards etc. and no new 'road diggings' at all. We all obviously know why this is happening and come mid May
all of this ‘Extra care & infrastructure improvement’ will end.
It
certainly is unfair that this is happening, but isn’t there any governance on
it? Is the election commission not concerned enough or thoughtful enough to
curb this? Or is it because these unethical practices are difficult to find or
measure? I am confident the latter isn’t the reason. Nobody, no politician –
best or the worst of the lot- will get all these super impressive work done by
his/her own money. It has to be the government’s budget. BBMP’s budget to be more
specific. Which means that it should be really easy to measure if there is an
increase in the spend on such development works.
The
only catch though, in this method of investigation is that if there had been a
constant high spend on papers all this while & wasn’t put into practice, we
wouldn’t really be able to prove that the ruling party is acting against the
ethics of election. Nevertheless, If one is hell bent on giving democracy its
true worth what would be an ideal starting point? RTI? But to map it back up we
will certainly need some realiable info/data proving that there had been no
development work until now too.
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