Yadav Raj

The Samajwadi Party recently released its Election Manifesto. Some of the salient features of the manifesto are:

• The use of computers in offices is creating unemployment problems. Our party feels that if work can be done by a person using hands there is no need to deploy machines.
• A harvesting season brings employment for the labour class for at least six months but these harvesters will snatch their earnings. So no machinery use in agriculture as well.
• The salaries provided by private firms should be in sync with the minimum wages that have been set by the government. Essentially instead of increasing the standard of living of the poor, we should bring down the standard of living of the rich.
• Mulayam Singh Yadav has also vowed to abolish the 'expensive education in English'. So, we all should stop studying English and the entire country should converse in Hindi only. 

I have actually run out of adjectives to describe the ridiculousness of this manifesto. If it was upto these people they would get us back to the stone age. Warped priorities and self interest seem to dominate their character. They just don't seem to have the wherewithal to begin the process of reform on a war-footing. I feel really sick knowing that such idiots are actually being elected leaders by our people. What is more sickening is that sitting at my home in front of the computer, I am actually doing nothing to stop such bullshit.

I just hope that no one elects any leader from such a party, which has only its own selfish interests in mind. Sometimes I wonder - do they owe nothing to anyone? Not even to their progeny?