I don't VOTE

Newspapers tell me to vote
But I simply don't care
I put on my branded overcoat
and say politics is so unfair

Radios tell me to vote
But I simply don't care
I hurriedly change the fm station
Unmindful out of the window, I stare

TV channels tell me to vote
But I simply don't care
I switch on to a music channel
and get lost in the blare

Websites tell me to vote
But I simply don't care
I turn on to social networking instead
And chat and rant with flair

My friends tell me to vote
But I simply don't care
I argue relentlessly on top of my voice
vanquished, throw my hands up in the air

And then I tell others to vote
and when they don't care
I give them a piece of my mind
and a 'responsible' look, I wear

The Great Indian Political drama award

The Great Indian Political drama is gearing up with the Lok
Sabha elections just a whisker away and as a kick off ceremony
we want to present before you the 'best of the best' awards
which would motivate and inspire our politician to carry on the
juggernaut for another five years (or less) to come.

Here it goes:

1. Most original idea award: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam
Singh for his out-of-the-box (Out of the universe) party
manifesto of banning English in education and computers in new
projects.

2. Best villian with a great escape award: Congress leader
Jagdish Tytler for escaping the sword after the CBI gave him a
clean chit in the 1984 anti-sikh riot case.

3. Best debutant and critics award: Dainik Jagran journalist
Jarnail Singh for lobbing his shoe at Home Minister PC
Chidambaram during a press Conference.

4. Life time achievement award: Former Prime Minister Atal
Bihari Vajpayee for emerging as the longest serving politician
that the nation has ever produced. Recently he was discharged
from AIIMS as doctors declared him fit to go home after 26 days
of stay at the Intensive Care Unit. 84-year-old Vajpayee piped L
K Advani by a whisker as Advani is three years younger and alive
and kicking. Advani need not worry as he is assured of his life
time achievement award next year if everything goes unwell.

5. Best MQ (Melodramatic quotient) award: To the two Ms of Indian
politics, BSP chief Mayawati and 'mother India' Maneka gandhi for
their melodramatic drama over Mother Teresa (she must be tossing
in her grave).

6. Best Actor, Script writer and Best Director: New kid in the
block BJP colt Varun Gandhi for dishing out the best seller,
most heartrendering performance in his potboiling Muslim bashing
episode in a public rally in Pilibhit which threatened the
national security as it broke lose a war of words in the cyber
world between India and Pakistan.