On casting your vote

Winning debates never win you any friends. You can only lose friendship during the debate. Yet as election season approaches people keep debating about politics. Often political debate becomes  battle of different political opinions. Opinions are always never right or wrong. They are only different shades of right or wrong depending upon ones' inner beliefs. For example Some people see Rahul Gandhi as an idiot promoting dynasty politics, others see him as fighting Modi in spite of all mud thrown at him. What is correct is very subjective. For me, it is clearly the first one but it cannot be backed by evidence but only even more opinions

So Instead if debate involves a battle of facts then the debate is more productive. You can learn something from such debates. So if someone says that the government is not doing anything for farmers. But the government is implementing more 20 -30 schemes for farmers welfare. What is different from the previous Congress government. If the government schemes are only in name or are being executed faithfully. You can see the expenditure incurred by the government for implementing the scheme.  For some scheme like pradhan mantri gram sadak yojana, progress in such scheme can be measured.

Finally when it comes to decision to cast your vote you should think about what is difference between agenda of different political parties. We should not focus on the negative aspects of each of the political parties as each of the political parties are not clean. So so we should avoid focusing on negative things instead we focus on what is the action that each party promises for us. 

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