Huzo Meru
In the past, surgeons used to do surgery without using hand gloves. In most cases, the operations were successful, but mortality rate was always high.
Doctors were baffled for a long time. When finally a doctor claimed and argued that the high mortality was due to operating with dirty hands, he was ridiculed by the medical fraternity. They said that surgeries were always done after washing of hands with utmost hygienic care.
However, later on, it was found that infection from hands was the main reason for high mortality. Since then, doctors started using hand gloves and, lo and behold, the mortality rate went down drastically.
This analogy is comparable to our election practice.
During election, we use alcohol, money, women, gun, proxy, and all other evils, imaginable and unimaginable. The goal is to win by hook or by crook. Our hands are stained with dirt beyond recognition without any shame.
Thus nothing good comes forth after election, and this vicious cycle continues unabated for almost six decades.
No wonder Nagaland has hit rock
bottom and lags far behind all Northeastern states.
The remedy for dirty election is simply, Free & Fair Clean Election with purity of conscience and action.
Those who advocate clean election may be ridiculed by wise fools. But unless election practice is made clean, the future is bleak and common people will continue to suffer.
Clean election is doable.
Only wise fools say that it is impossible – for where there's a will there's a way!
“All things are possible to him who believes.”
