Monday, April 27, 2009

A Conscientious Voter


Any citizen of a country is responsible for its wellbeing and can eventually take care of it by conscientiously exercising ones voting rights to elect representatives for effective and progressive governance, reflecting the voters’ will and efforts to social progress and national development at large. To make this happen, every voter should (irrespective of origin, gender, religion, caste and creed):
· Freely and easily identify self with the nation as its citizen. Be proud of the identity.
· Be educated and literate with knowledge of the country’s Constitution.
· Be aware of Duties and Responsibilities as a citizen of the country as well as ones global responsibility too.
· Be aware of the Rights and Privileges as a citizen of the country.
· Be aware of the National Heritage and its resources (natural, infrastructural, cultural, financial, human, etc.) and above all the ecology.
· Be aware of the National Objective (not only in terms of own well being but that of the neighbours too, both nationally and globally) considering the previous point.
· Be aware of the ways of organizing and conducting effective governance to meet the national objective.
· Be aware of the political groups and their political agenda in terms of fulfilling the national objective.
· Be aware of the members of the political group and their credentials in terms of their personality traits, their qualification, their achievements in the past and how all this will help in achieving the national objective. Functional transparency followed by the political groups as national representatives.
· Above all, should be aware of the fact that self interest or any vested interest should not be above national interest, therefore both the integrity of the voter and the members of any political group is at stake in terms of commitment to national development as well as global harmony along with ecological balance.

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