I voted ystrdy ... did u?

So yesterday was the big voting day in Mumbai and I was lucky to get a holiday from my company. A lot of hype was built around voting awareness by the media( read 'jaago re'). Plus with political parties requesting votes from new technologically advanced mediums like blogs and online advertisements I expected this one to be a very strongly active election.

So I went about around 3 in the afternoon to cast my vote with my sis and bro. It was my younger brother's first time and he was quite keen to exercise his voting rights. So we went to the nearby school in the scorching heat where voting was held expecting less crowd at that time of the day but were pleasantly surprised to see long queues for the different voting rooms. Fortunately we had no queue for our room and we were quickly done with the process in less than 5 minutes ( yes all the 3 of us).

If you don't know how things go inside the voting room please read on else move to the next paragraph. Once your turn arrives, you show ur voting card ticket to the person nearest to you. He will go through his book of voters, search your name and mark it out. The next person will ask for both- your election identity card( or any other proof) and the polling slip(which shows if you belong to the given locality). He crosschecks it and his approval takes you to the next person who will use a strong ink to draw a line on your ahem, ahem, middle finger. Now this ensures that you vote only once. The last person will pull out some coupon and ask you to proceed to the all important voting machine. Now this machine will be strategically placed to ensure complete confidentiality. You press the button adjacent to your candidate's symbol, wait for the beep and you are done. Simple and fun if you are a young voter.

This was mine and my sister's second time and before we left the house, my mom and dad tried to use their influence on our votes( they both support different parties as of now). Smart kids that we are, we slipped away and gave our secret votes( we never mentioned our candidate's names to each other and our parents). I voted for the person whom I think has done enough for our constituency. Who becomes the prime minister and who doesnt really doesnt affect the local man I believe.

At the end of the day we found out that 40- something percent people had exercised their voting rights in our block. Today morning, the newspapers stated that it was the same state all over Mumbai. What a shame! All those loud ads on television did nothing for the common man is born to cry and complain all his life. I agree that joining politics is a tough option for young people but at least you can vote. These very people are at the front of the line to abuse politics and netas. If you happen to ask any of their little children about politics, they would say that its bad and corrupt, government sucks and blah blah blah. These annoying stupid kids of their hopeless loser parents.I hope you are not one of them. In case you are then please have some shame on yourself and don't repeat the same mistake again. I am not one of them and would never be one.