I was wondering about the major causes of political outbursts in Haryana since the "wave" factor and "anti-incumbency" always took the political outfits and the voters by not much of a surprise. I went around the neighbouring states, such as Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Rajasthan, Punjab and Delhi, during the elections and there were lot of similarities and differences as compared to Haryana. The basic issues remained the same, such as "Bijli", "Paani", and "Vikas", along with unemployment and corruption. I was amazed to see that the neighbouring states were not badly effected by the anti-incumbency factors and outside candidates were not accepted dearly.
Haryana has seen complete wash out of the ruling parties so many times, eg. in 1987, 2005. 1987 saw the Congress falling the below 10 mark and so did INLD in 2005. Experienced and stable candidates lost to people who hardly had experience, didn't have stability in accordance with any party, or to people who were just super rich. People like Ch. Bansi Lal, Ch. Om Prakash Chautala, Ch. Devi Lal, Ch. Birender Singh, Prof. Sampat Singh lost their elections to rivals who were never heard of in their respective areas.
Casteism has played a major role, but to me Haryana not only has politics but too much of politics. The expectation are way too high and at times just imaginary. What makes it worst, is that the memories are short lived. People tend to forget the misdeeds of the candidates. Being a small state Haryana can be covered in one single day, therefore more accessibility of the leaders and more expectations. Any person can travel anywhere in Haryana to meet any political leader or representative. Smaller state puts the pressure on the politicians to attend all important and not-so important official and private functions. There is hardly any gap betweent the politician and the common man, which leads to a political havoc. Moreover, everybody knows everybody, which makes the anti-incumbency wave more stronger. Although workers of politicial parties try to pacify as much public they can, but accessibility makes them direct in interaction with the politicians.
We need to focus on the top priorities of the state then pondering our politicians with government job requests. Haryana is going through major crisis in Power department. Situations is critical and outburst would be significant. We need to vote in accordance with the calliber of the candidates. We need to compare them adequately in various fields, such as development works, policy matters, type of questions raied on the floor of the house, manners, attitude, stability, and ability to get the work done by the officers.
Practically, if you see, then every government is run by 8-10 people, who are involved in major policy decisions. Therefore, the voter must choose the candidate that has the ability to be a part of teh government so that he/she can bring in more development funds to the constituency.
I would like to conclude that apart from everything the voter must also try to be as stable as he/she can so that development works don't lag behind because of the change of the governments.
Haryana has seen complete wash out of the ruling parties so many times, eg. in 1987, 2005. 1987 saw the Congress falling the below 10 mark and so did INLD in 2005. Experienced and stable candidates lost to people who hardly had experience, didn't have stability in accordance with any party, or to people who were just super rich. People like Ch. Bansi Lal, Ch. Om Prakash Chautala, Ch. Devi Lal, Ch. Birender Singh, Prof. Sampat Singh lost their elections to rivals who were never heard of in their respective areas.
Casteism has played a major role, but to me Haryana not only has politics but too much of politics. The expectation are way too high and at times just imaginary. What makes it worst, is that the memories are short lived. People tend to forget the misdeeds of the candidates. Being a small state Haryana can be covered in one single day, therefore more accessibility of the leaders and more expectations. Any person can travel anywhere in Haryana to meet any political leader or representative. Smaller state puts the pressure on the politicians to attend all important and not-so important official and private functions. There is hardly any gap betweent the politician and the common man, which leads to a political havoc. Moreover, everybody knows everybody, which makes the anti-incumbency wave more stronger. Although workers of politicial parties try to pacify as much public they can, but accessibility makes them direct in interaction with the politicians.
We need to focus on the top priorities of the state then pondering our politicians with government job requests. Haryana is going through major crisis in Power department. Situations is critical and outburst would be significant. We need to vote in accordance with the calliber of the candidates. We need to compare them adequately in various fields, such as development works, policy matters, type of questions raied on the floor of the house, manners, attitude, stability, and ability to get the work done by the officers.
Practically, if you see, then every government is run by 8-10 people, who are involved in major policy decisions. Therefore, the voter must choose the candidate that has the ability to be a part of teh government so that he/she can bring in more development funds to the constituency.
I would like to conclude that apart from everything the voter must also try to be as stable as he/she can so that development works don't lag behind because of the change of the governments.