Am I firmly the spectator? What is going on in the country’s politics is just a spectacle for me? Or I am also part of this sensational and delusional occurrence. Why we don’t ever dare to ask these questions to ourselves. Straddling in front of the television looks appealing to us, reaping and overlooking any political episode turns out to be soliciting and we don’t care why this is all happening or what causes it.
We talk about democracy, the system where the public rules. But the public representatives are found to be playing a simple blame game, fighting for their concerns, handshaking with those, whom they are to call traitors, betrayers, and robbers. No one is talking about major public issues, no one cares about what the masses are going with. Education, health, industries, food security, and employment, all critical and integral sectors of our economy are at stake, but the public representatives are roaming around the courts, abandoning the parliament which is the Public platform, a place that has been granted a mandate by the public, this makes it all clear that the representatives are not severe and pressing for the public, they only want their interests to be protected.
Politicians, while giving interviews never let us know what is the real notion they are concerned for. Some phrases are lifelong in Pakistani politics and everyone claims to be “fighting for democracy” or “real independence” but they violate the constitution and rule out democracy.
Secondly, our media houses find all these situations, a golden chance. By wielding these junctures, they manipulate the circumstances and raise ludicrous questions which could not lead to any conclusion but rather a more serious uproar. This creates an impression, an impression that captivates human mentality diverts an individual, and cultivates chaos. The fundamental problem is the economy, not the chief ministership or prime ministership.
There should not be an urge inside us? To know more than the media and newspapers confine us. Should we not need to be bystanders anymore, so we could play a part in democracy. Democracy doesn’t mean to cast vote freely or electing your representative, but democracy also held the ruling class accountable to the people who have brought them to the parliament.
