My open letter to the politicians of Manipur
- Part 3 -
Shanta Nahakpam *
The sarcasm of being a politician in Manipur is that we all know you
have been lying since you step foot in politics but we are still with
you since we are trapped for our daily bread and butter at your
sympathy. You would say democracy gives the liberty to choose your
leader why look at me look for someone better if you think so. Again
the common man does not have an option because you don't give them the
chance to rule them self.
Let us look at the earning source of the people of Manipur, more than
70% of the earning comes from Government salary, you try to create as
much as job as you can through vacancies in the Government Departments
but you never look at the earning of these departments or say the
performance of such departments. I would like you to know that we
understand the pleasure of inaugurating a multispecialty hospital or a
school and also the pleasure and pride of sitting in a function with
successful business personalities from the state.
But how do you
explain the many words you speak while in any function that such kind
of schools and facilities are needed in the state aren't you
harnessing the hard work of some entrepreneur and instead of learning
from him you simply say that we need more of this and leave the stage
and never give more of such things to come up until and until someone
puts his or her hard work and invites you for the very inauguration or
the foundation day. I would say you don't play any role in the
development of the common man as far as I know you only take the
credit of the common mans achievement.
As some of you (Politicians) would argue that you are not amongst the
people you calculate to be, you would claim to be honest enough for
the common man to trust you for the future of the State and that you
have sacrificed your carrier to serve the people of the state be it of
any community.
I would again want you to understand that the so called democratic
process of election involves a large amount of power, black/white
money to get elected. To the common man it is impossible that they
elect a representative of their choice since more than 70% of the
earning of the people is dependent on Salary and Govt funds. They are
not able to fund elections and promote leader of their choice.
Small
entrepreneur like me do not play any role in choosing our elected
representative we as a common man only vote in sympathy of our friends
who ask us to help in the process and progress of their liked ones.
Another issue I would like you to understand is that since you have
not done anything for the common man in the state the state is being
run by the donations done by the Union Govt of India and 70% of the
earning population belongs to your party (The Govt Employee) it makes
it easier for you to cross any issue since maximum of the population
do not protest at all for any grievances. I wonder why the people of
the State Manipur do not protest when the prices of essential
commodities are soaring high and why we do not protest the many
unreasonable bund and blockade which are not related to us at any
point of time.
This is the time I realised most of the people get benefit of Bund and
Blockade without any labour for instance a Govt employee will get his
salary without attending office even though he gets it late, an
officer's D A and T A will still be released even if he never went in
field etc,
On the other side none of the Government employee will
participate in any of the issues even if it is genuine as they fear
you would take action with them for their disloyalty(as per your
understanding). As in the case of common man the whole earning
process is hampered and we are again left to the unorganised money
launders for our bread and butter. To repay them we have to work
EXTRA shift and once we repay them another bund and blockade is ready
to test our limit of hard work. This way the rich is getting richer
and the common man remains in his little world.
Again you don't have the solution for such problem I even doubt you
ever tried to understand what is the future of the students who are
studying in other states and cities? Did you ever think of what do
you offer when they return home with the knowledge they have earned.
In your campaign never ever have you mentioned how you plan to bring
back the major human resource which is being utilized by different
states that belong to your state? But you still give us a dream that
you will create jobs from whose earning the people can send their
children to better schools and colleges outside the state.
It seems
you do not wish to have a plan layout which will attract the very
smart and intelligent population of human resource to come back to
their home state and help in improving the economy of the common man.
I know while reading this letter you must be thinking that much of the
ideas and thoughts are a truth and you would like to plan as soon as
you get elected but I also know that you will do nothing after you get
elected. To conclude with us as a common man who do not have much
help and contacts. We need to have a mechanism as to understand the
importance of a leader who will represent us who will at least put
points related to the common people and how they can get developed.
To do so we need to participate in the process of choosing a leader
for that we have to finance these elections which are not an easy
task.
I would conclude by putting up that there is a need for MSME and
various entrepreneurs to start financing elections at various levels
so that we can change the politicians/Government when they are not
performing as per their promise. Today's election is being financed
by the many under the table funds received by high profile Govt
employee and the funds coming from New Delhi.
Since we are just
voting it is not bringing any change we want in our society. To be
very precise we are not able to influence any of the decisions made by
our government at any level. Except that we use the mechanism of
Bund and Blockade as the tool for our interest.
It is the call of time that we should team up and utilize our skills
and knowledge at least to out-throw the politicians who do not work in
the interest of the people. I do not know if I have made the point in
this letter and you would be reading this letter but I feel I have
expressed my concern over the issues we face today and what we want
our politicians to understand. I also hope after reading this letter
you will at least try to formulate a vision in yourself as to how
these issues impact the common man which you are not bearing in mind.
The time is for our parents to realise the importance of small
business and the significance of our politicians to create small
business sectors are equally important in nature. Our politicians
should have a look at the study of major business stake in the state
today and many of the business are not controlled by local people
which are also a major reason for prise rise. The unregulated form of
finance which we look at for help in various jobs is the reason for
the gap we have today with the earnings and the savings.
I just wish you to read this letter of mine and at least try to
streamline the issues we have today and present us with a vision as to
how you will create job without trapping us into the net of non
regulated jobs and money launders? How you intend to improve the
regular earnings of various small scale businesses by making Manipur
Bund and Blockade free?
How you intend to punish those engaged in
corruption which is actually financing your political carrier?
I look forward to a reply to all my questions until than I have
decided not participate in any political party's campaign and also not
vote for any candidate.
Concluded
* Shanta Nahakpam wrote this article for e-pao.net
The writer can be contacted at shantaanta12(AT)gmail(DOT)com
This article was posted on February 21, 2017.
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