Keep Calm and Vote We are Punjabis.

One day left for the greatest polling show on earth (well part of it). We, Punjabis always feel that the sun, the moon and the stars revolve around universe. It is just incidental we are Indians; first and foremost we are Punjabis. The trolling done on the net and all the social media sites is inevitable, but close to reality.

In my own village in the hinterland of Doab, AAP is making couples fight in their 70’s! . Our village hatti wala (corner shop for everything) is not talking with his wife of a good half-century as she is supporting the ruling Akali Dal –BJP combine and he supports the AAP candidate. They have become the talk of our village and this part of the larger constituency. They fight , hurl abuses, get very colorful against each others leaders and swear by them . They extoll their virtues and keep on promising that the leader is the chosen one. The Messiah of the masses !

The domestic spat has become the talk of the surrounding villages, where she cooks food for the family and he refuses to be served by him. So much so, that they don’t even cross each other. A new kind of independence is being seen, the wife is adamant to support the panth but the husband wants to rule the roost and wants to take charge of the traditional broom. Are we seeing empowerment or a change in the traditional way of life? The funny part is that where the Aam Aadmi party should be for the women, who want a change from corruption, rising inflation index, more jobs for their youth that is ready for the job market, they all feel that it is better to support one of the two evils rather than a new party that flopped and lost its chance when they were given it in Delhi.

The voter is not stupid, nor is it swayed; they will go with the time tested two parties and is now going to bury the hatchet with their lot. Of course, the revolution that we think is happening is limited to the virtual media, the urban cities. Right now in my village all that is happening is that Jeeto and his wife are not speaking. 

A Punjabi wife will of course be loyal to her party, she stands up to her husband but one thing she will never do is not cook a meal. So, while Jeeto serves himself, they both are content in supporting their parties. The trend is that openly a few of the younger lot are supporting the jhaddoo (the broom) to clean the corrupt system and to revolutionize the society and be rid of all the evils but isn’t Kejriwal also promising the same freebies that the sarkar is already giving under one pretext or the other. We need socialism, populist measures to be responsible for our citizens who are not on the same level but that can only survive if we have a capitalist model to generate the income!

Jeeto, is clever enough to convince people that he is a revolutionary leader and is going to clean the corrupt system and be the awaaz for the down trodden, but methinks it is just a way to ensure people keep on coming to his shop to get the daily dose of politics, and yes to keep on buying sauda!

The fact that daily sales at his corner shop have increased due to this colorful fight between them and that they are supporting two different parties is incidental.

Keep Calm, Its business as Usual, voting is incidental