When it’s time to decide

In the elections that have come and gone most of us made our decision based on a particular political party. However, considering the fact that corruption is rampant irrespective of any political party, we must ensure that we make our crucial decision based on the candidate and not on a party.

Let us consider the recent events that made headlines and became the talk of the town. They have clearly confirmed the words of wisdom of the British politician Lord Acton that “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.

How far have the politicians fulfilled their promise of the sun, moon and the stars which they make prior to the elections? This is not a million dollar question. The answer simply slips away from our tongues even before we could think critically.

Casting our vote for a candidate based on his/ her political party is not going to reap benefits for us because politicians in our country are involved in the habit of changing their allegiance to their parties at regular intervals for pecuniary motives.

Before we head off to the next polling booth let us remind ourselves that we had voted for the perpetrators of all heinous crimes that took place during the former regime. We committed the same mistake again by voting for individuals who are being incriminated in a Machiavellian financial scandal in Sri Lankan history. Keep these things in mind.