Election Festivities Concludes in Delhi

The election festival was held in the country's capital Delhi in which the people of Delhi exercised their constitutional right to vote. What will be the election results, it will be known only on February 8, but it was clear from the electoral atmosphere of Delhi that this time the contest is very tough and it is triangular. The contest was between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the BJP and the Congress. All these three parties were seen using their full strength to win the elections. Now the people will decide which party got the most support. Elections actually serve as a political school for the general public in which different political parties seek votes from the people according to their respective ideologies, although in the present times ideology is becoming secondary and the noise of personal stigma is increasing. This situation cannot be considered as conducive to the health of democracy under any circumstances.

In the elections, we saw how there was a competition among these three parties to distribute freebies to the voters. By the way, there is no way to avoid such things in a democracy. The reason for this is that the Indian Constitution advocates the establishment of a welfare state in the country. In this state, the sense of welfare of the people is paramount. This system is dedicated to the development of those who have been left behind in the socio-economic race. The Constitution musters the confidence to provide relief to such people. Therefore, in election promises, the promise of direct cash assistance to the poorer sections of the people is not unconstitutional. Of course, such cash-cash measures should be avoided and the government should make efforts to uplift the policy-disadvantaged. Distributing freebies can create a sense of indolence among the people. One example is enough for this.

When India became independent in 1947, its economic condition was very thin because for two hundred consecutive years, the British had looted all its wealth and food grains by keeping it their slave. In 1949, he became the Chief Minister of Odisha. Hare Krishna Mahtab had then expressed strong objection to the US running community development projects in the districts considered to be the poorest in his state. Many facilities were to be provided free of cost by the US to the citizens of these districts. Then Dr. Mahtab met Prime Minister Pt. He wrote an open letter to Jawaharlal Nehru and said that if we allow the US Ambassador Chester Bowles to run such a project, then the importance of labour will not matter to the people and the spirit of self-reliance will be lost among them. Others, when they see fair-skinned Britishers in their midst, may feel that the British are still their masters despite their independence. After this letter, Pt. Nehru ordered Chester Bowles not to run a community development project. In the present context, if we look at this free rewari system, we will find that the government is not doing any favor by giving cash assistance to the poor people because in a market oriented economy, the price of labor is also decided by the market, due to which it is very difficult for any government to control inflation. Therefore, when the poor man is given the help of cash cash, he can muster the courage to face the forces of the market. But this is not the final solution, the final solution is the determination of Government policies in favour of the poor. These policies can only be in the form of subsidies. This increases the desire of citizens to demand a fair price for labour.

Well, today is not the day to go deep into this philosophy because the people of Delhi have captured the fate of the candidate of every party standing in the election. It can only be said about this that no matter which party the people of Delhi put in power, their first task will be to organize the poor Delhi. Whether it is the work of cleaning the streets of the capital or the issue of rising inflation and unemployment. These are questions that will have to be addressed by the government which will have to be solved, although unemployment and inflation are national issues, but the state government formed at the level of Delhi will also be bound to solve them. Delhi's education system and health services were also discussed fiercely in the election campaign. Mentioning these issues will be considered good for democracy. In elections, only emotional issues are raised and votes are looted because there is no logic behind it. The special feature of these elections was that the above three parties also selected their candidates with great prudence (except for one or two).

While the BJP fielded its regional stalwarts, the Congress also released a list of eminent politicians and the Aam Aadmi Party also released a list of its candidates in the fray. Of course, there was bad verbal in the election, but it could not make any impact on the voters. The results of these elections will now be judged through exit polls. There is no reason to believe them because they are obsessed with the gestures of the political masters sitting behind the scenes. Therefore, the public should wait till February 8. In these elections, the previous record of complaints to the Election Commission has been broken, but it can be said that the elections were more or less peaceful.