"What a fucking joke!”

Immortalized by Arvind Adiga's The White Tiger, this phrase holds true for the state of Indian politics today. Ministers fight over personal instead of patriotic differences while they fill personal instead of public coffers.

Scams have become a common foothold for a politician and the "Honest, Hardworking politician" has become an evergreen character in Indian cinema which has to date, never been immortalized in flesh.

Despair filled my heart, as during one of my numerous musings, I pondered the answer to the question "Who will I vote for when I turn 18?” In a search for the answer, I quantified the scenario today.

No political party is clean. A fact agreed upon by all. If Congress was responsible for the Emergency, BJP had an equally guilty hand in the Hindu-Muslim Riots over the years. If MNS campaigned against the North Indian populace in Mumbai, SP or BSP too has not done something overtly special for Maharashtrians either.

Tamilnadu wants Sri Lanka to be tried for Human Rights violations while Their Own police officers feel that "Women invite rapists by wearing indecent clothes". So you get the gist, political parties that claims to be clean are rather the unclean one.

Next moving on to the media sensationalism of "Youth Leaders" or "The Emerging Young Leaders" or "Future Leaders". Again I say, "What a fucking joke!” Congress's so called youth leader, a certain Rahul Gandhi is at the ripe young age of 41. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, in a nation where nearly 58% of the population is under 30 and can be legally elected with a minimum age of 25, 41 is classified as "YOUNG".

I still remember the indignant feeling I felt when I woke up one day to the news that "Rahul Gandhi Travels via Mumbai Local Trains to Understand the Urban Transportation Problem". Yes, the common man's problems can easily be seen in a non-peak hour time empty train’s first class compartment with a plethora of bodyguards.

Even the Bhartiya Janta Party is not the doodh ke dhule political party they claim to be. Two porn-gate incidents, numerous Hindu-Muslim riots instigation and an emerging pro-Hindu Gujarati Prime Ministerial candidate who was denied a visa to USA (Chuck USA, he is not allowed in Bihar itself) are just some of the stains they have and believe you me, Yeh daag kisi ko acchhe nahin lagte.

I have not even given full credit to scams, regional parties (the main culprits behind the veiled caste system of India) and individual MPs.

Also, I would be a raving idiot if I say that our country has done nothing since Independence. On the contrary we have done numerous things including some amazing growth (one of the few countries to possess nuclear weaponry, top in grain production etc to name a few). But my point is that we could have done much much more just if our politicians would have thought of patriotism instead of party-ism, and OUR money instead of MY money.

Also, the extravagance of our political bureaucracy (Ask any Indian citizen what comes to mind when he imagines a political honchos office. Nearly everyone will describe a scenario of a rich, plush office with poor people pacing about for days and weeks together while Babus drive their files from here to there) has played an extremely detrimental role in demoralising our nation.

So, to answer my question, I conclude that as of now, it's my personal gamble to vote in the best of the worst or the lesser evil, while we bide our time, learn from our mistakes and clean up our nation.

To quote the movie Rang De Basanti, "Desh kaise theek hoga? Yeh Desh ka kuch nahin hoga!" " Hoga.Hum badlenge Desh ko. IAS join karenge, politics mein entry karenge, police aur army mein bharti honge. Koi Desh perfect nahin hota. Usse perfect banana padta hai."

I think it's time ki hum Desh ko perfect banaye.