I am not a pro Congress/BJP or any party for that matter. I voted for the first time in my life and it was a great experience. I cannot reveal to whom I voted as it is against the rules of Election commission ;) . However, I can definitely reveal that I didnot vote for BJP or Advani Ji (with all due respect to him he is so elder to me that even in my dreams I cannot think of doing anything disrespectful for him)
I made my opinion about whom to vote over a period of one month prior to election, after reading the policies and plans of various parties, after watching the ad campaigns of various parties in television and internet. Here are the top 10 Reasons which gradually shifted my important vote away from BJP and Advani ji.
1. The internet/television/print media campaign of BJP always gave an impression as if it was the campaign to make Advani ji a PM and not a campaign to suggest that BJP can give a more stable and better goverment than the existing goverment.
The fact that Advani Ji launched a separate website than www.bjp.org strengthened my above hypthesis.
2. Most of BJP's Ad campaigns were negative in nature and criticised the existing governement. Instead of projecting the good things that they intend to do after coming into power, they always focussed on the bad things the existing goverment is doing as the reason of change. This was never convincing enough to make change in Government.
On the contrary, Congress Ads were focussed on stability and growth.
3. I didnot appreciate a direct personal attack on Mr Manmohan Singh by Mr Advani Ji. A decent amount of maturity is expected from a person of this age and cadre. When you know that millions of people are watching you and making opinion about you for election, at-least for this selfish reason, one should have exhibited maturity in not saying something like this directly.
I really appreciated the maturity with which Mr Singh responded to this issue ( he got a bonus +5 from me on this :) ).
4. The indecent proposals ( thats what I call them, forgive me for my language) made by Mr Advani Ji went against them in the case of my single vote. The proposals made in the form of "Ladli Ladki Yojna" and another proposal to increase the tax exemption slab to 3 Lakh. It sounded like Mr Advani Ji is trying to bribe me openly for my vote. Damn!!! tell me something concrete that you can do after coming to power rather than wooing me for these couple of lakhs. I know this trick might work for a segment for Indian population but you lost me a big time here.
I was rather curious to know how would you increase the GDP of India or reduce the impact of current financial meltdown on our economy rather than getting a tax exemption.
5. The stand taken by BJP on 26/11 was that it would have attacked Pakistan to take revenge. It might sound the right decission when you are high on emotions but it will definitely not sound practical once you start analyzing the impact of such a drastic step.
Hundreds of lives and millions of Rupess is spent in couple of days of war. Do you really want to take such an step whose outcome it not worth and which cost you like hell and hit your economy adversly. The maturatiy that UPA governement demonstrated in diplomatically handling the issue by putting international pressure on Pakistan is worth the applaude.
6. One of the biggest political agenda that BJP governement had was their Governement will get back all the black money that is lying in swiss bank.
woooooh...now this was the height of non-sense ( no I seriously mean it). How can this agenda beome a public agenda? Aren't you supposed to sliently handle such a sensitive issue and make it public only when you have got success.
Have you even seen the crime brnach annoucning about the clues that they have got to nab the criminal?
If you are with me in opinion share this article with your friends and let all pro BJP people read this and let this reach Mr Advani Ji and and the BJP high command so that they are better prepared in 2014 to give us an alternative option to UPA.
The more the competetion between these two main national parties the better for us " We the people of India".
