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Q: Your sentiments as an A&M leader as the dates for the great-grandparent of all elections are set to be announced?
A: General Elections evoke multiple emotions: as a citizen, as a professional and as a consumer. Even if I have mentioned them separately, they are interconnected. What affects me as a citizen could actually affect me as a stakeholder of the others and vice versa.
General elections, this year or for that matter every time ( since it comes every five years) is of significant importance for the country and every aspect of society, economy and culture get impacted by it. For a huge country like India with a variety of issues, general elections hold huge implications for government policies, economic functioning, and prosperity of the citizens. This year, it is all the more significant as choice-making by the voters have become extremely complex due to conflicting facts, figures thanks to all-pervading social media and deep fakes. One can’t differentiate between fact and fiction. The prevalent political culture is comparable to livestock trading and for a layman it can be very confusing. These pose both challenges and opportunities for the polity in general as voter apathy take a back seat because they (the voters) realise that this is the opportunity to revisit the performance of the present government and contribute to a vibrant democracy as in India.
I am excited to observe, participate in the Mahayudh – Dance of Democracy – and contribute to the forward march of the country. The A&M industry would also get positively benefited by the buoyancy caused by the overall surge in the optimism.