When ever we hear about election then our mind clicks about Politics. Politics is the best thing at one hand and the most worst thing of the world at another hand. Thats why in democratic nation the percentage of vote is 23% to 49% best of my knowledge. At certain level this condition of democracy also lies in college life. But as soon citizens get aware of their votes, the percentage of vote will go high and high. I am a student of Shaheed Bhagat Singh (Evening) College, University Of Delhi. In last two years i saw voting percentage 41% and 41%, but this year it was 48%. I was also a nominee for the post of president. Being a innocent guy, i was not familiar all about the politics. I though, it is only concerned with the college students but i realized it is mainly concerned with the local "gundas" and criminals. Localities tried their best for their candidate but they have worst candidature.
The most interesting thing was, getting threatening calls before the nomination. listening of their words for kidnapping and abusing on phone and finally they don't have dare to say anything in front. Fighting outside the college premises and threatening the nominee for being absent from college till the end of nomination date. I was watching the situation with peace and patience, waiting for mine term. I don't know what were reason that they never threat me directly, otherwise i was in the mood to teach them some lessons about democracy. But although, it was a fantastic experience and it will help me while contesting the election of MLA and MP in future. But i am not going to contest any more elections, Inshallh.
Let me share some moments after nomination, once a guy to whom even i don't know come to me and said. Tufail you are my very close friend for last two years and i don't want to loose this relation just for the sake of election. So, listen to me you contest the election for the post of Vice-President rather than president. I told him ok, i will consider over it. It was really shocking, i met him first time and he said that we are friends for last two years, what the hell people are... People are really very self centered. Later on i came to know that he was very close friend of my opposition party.
After the nomination criminals started to threat nominee for their withdrawals. Some of them withdrawal from threat and some for the sake of money. We got three days for the withdrawals and the condition of candidature was just like share market. Different political parties of college were paying different rates for different posts. I have still remembered that some people took money and withdraw their names from nomination for sake of money. All those candidate who have canceled their nomination, it doesn't mean that they were not deserving but they were corrupted and worst. A man who can kill his/her wishes for money, is ridiculous all about talking about him.
After finalizing list, i came to see many things. According to Delhi University Election Committee, one candidate was allowed to made maximum expenditure of 5000 but almost all crossed 25000 and even a few nominee crossed 50,000. Thanks to Lyngdoh Committee who made some restrictions otherwise once again this election was going to be in favor of economically rich candidate. But no doubt once again nominee have violated the rules of Lyngdoh committee, but they have tried their best at certain level. Finally, before two days of elections people started to purchase votes and every time i was laughing with my friends. Actually, economically i was not so rich that i can buy the votes but the definition of democracy in present scenario is all about purchasing of votes. The constitution defines democracy as "by the people, for the people and of the people" while reality is:- "BUY the people, FAR the people, OFF the people".
I keep my trust on the students and rather than working on the share market of votes i continued struggling hard for making votes. I was the most strong candidate from the beginning to the end of the election and of course it was only because of great supports, hard work and sacrifices of my close friends and great support of o my department geography and teachers from all most all departments. Finally i won the election by the grace of almighty Allah and it was the biggest margin for any presidential candidate in the history of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Evening college at yet. I would like to thanks every one either who supported or demoralized during election. but,finally, we also lost some great candidate and i would like to express my sorrowful expression for them. May God bless them and give them courage to bear the great loss. I promise, Inshallah i will work with zeal, enthusiasm, passion and interest for the development of the college. Finally i got a team of Nandini Sharma for Vice-President, Ashish Kumar for Secretary and Shamsher Singh for the post of Joint Secretary. I wish they will give me their humble support for making this college bright. Thanks to every one, thanks to teaching staff and non teaching staff for their cooperation during election. Thanks to almighty Allah, who has given me an opportunity to serve students.
With best regards
Tufail Ahmad Irfani
New Delhi
India
