Vote For India.... Your Today, Your Tomorrow!

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Come Election Day, be sure to vote

Pause, think, be sure what your life should denote.

The fight today is not who is the better option

The more important thing is to end blind devotion.

If we go down this path there is no return

In hatred and distress our nation will burn.

Our forefathers who fought for this idea of a nation

In our stupidity, let’s not diminish their vision.

The choice we make will reflect on us forever

Voting for secularism and democracy should be our endeavor.

Our society today is at a dangerous crossroad

Another wrong vote, the very idea of India we erode.

The voice of all dissent is under attack

Every individual, institution being pulled back.

The nation held at ransom at the hands of a few

Sadhvis and Babas we will be answerable to.

The government has gone rouge trying to capture all organisations

EC, RBI, military, IT Office slowly loosing meaning and existence.

TV anchors have gone berserk and lost all civility

In the name of debate, propaganda and hostility.

Today political campaigning can single out a community

Threaten to deprive of jobs, development and humanity.

In just five years they have resorted to intimidate and scare

In another five, authoritarian rule we may have to bear.

They are trying to alter everything our constitution upholds

Through their baseless WhatsApp university and IT cell forwards.

Bigotry and intolerance, the language of the day

In future for our idiocity, our children will pay.

Today you think it is about Muslims and Ram-Mandir

Tomorrow it will be about the rights of your kids.

Any prejudice or discrimination you stand by now

Infringement on your way of life and freedom you allow.

Marginalisation and polarization is a double-edged sword

The long-term effects will be very untoward.

Nothing remains the way it began

Into something unwanted it surely will transform.

Choose wisely, who and what you support

Pause, think before you cast your vote!