The middle class as arm-chair spectators: Letters to The EDITOR

The middle class as arm-chair spectators

It is unfortunate that the middle class in India, and especially in this part of the country, has become arm-chair spectators in the process of electioneering, focused on TV channel debates, and social media, and ignoring the real issues of the country and its people. Of late, it has turned for the worse with party taglines (for or against chowkidar, for example) becoming more important than anything else. The core issues of different political parties, and the Nation, should have been growth and development, jobs, corruption, health and hygiene, infrastructure (like roads), utilities (like electricity, gas connection, etc), price rise, law and order, social harmony, poverty alleviation, etc. Instead, this species is more glued to the electronic and social media to air their opinions, instead of understanding the ground realities. The middle class can be a strong force in pressuring the political parties to address the issues at hand, as it did on certain occasions in the past. It is to the misfortune of this nation, that this educated and better-off class has dithered, as a group, leaving the field free for the political entities, which anyways would exploit the shortcomings of the electorate to their advantage.

A Bhuyan,

Nagaon