For many of the crore Indians, it will not matter much as to which party comes to power in Delhi or in their respective states. This carelessness is not due to the inability of the Indian citizens to understand and foresee the deeds of their leaders, but because there are much more urgent works that need their attention. When many of the intellectuals are working overtime to plan and secure the future of their bigger clients and others trying to secure the future of this nation, it may come as a big surprise why the ordinary Indian is indifferent to the politics.
After 66 years of independence the ordinary citizen has to worry about the basic needs of his life-food, water, housing. Many of the billion Indians don't have the basic needs fulfilled and have to struggle very hard to meet these demands. If anything that has changed is the addition of the basic needs apart from the above mentioned. The added basic needs are electricity, education, employment. The last one is the most important which has become a very scarce and the political masters have ensured that only a few will able to avail it.
The policies of the governments at the centre has ensured over a long period time that the basic needs should be provided by Government in the name of its family members. The idea is to ensure that several million gullible Indians are made to believe that the facilities are being given out at the personal expense of the political leaders and that the receivers should be at the feet of the masters. This philosophy of governance is called Welfare State and people will be perennially dependent on the government, and the same set of people will keep coming to power over and over again.
This cycle repeats and the elections though provide a chance for the citizens to select a alternative fail to understand the power of voting and elect their life provider. This is the politics practised by almost all of the political parties which includes Congress(I), BJP, BJD, SP, BSP, DMK, AIADMK, AAP, RJD, JDS, JDU, SAD, etc. No party is immune to the dole giving attitude, while some parties give out government money in the name of the current leaders, some give in the name of the past leaders, but the doles given out are a reminder to the people as to who their life providers are.
A poor man is not a weak citizen and doesnot need any support financially. He has to be given the skills so that he can fulfil his dreams. Only the way has to be shown and the citizen has to earn livelihood but instead the governments are helping more than it should have and wasting huge resources which could be better utilized in building the infrastructure. The man once made to depend on the government for his livelihood will forever remain dependent on the government. This sense of dependency is manipulated by the governments for their for survival.