The revised ballot....

We're are a couple of centimeters away from becoming the laughing stock of the world. With the way the Commonwealth Games are being (dis)organized, it makes me wonder if it can get any worse. But i'm sure they'll outdo themselves, which is sad.

How in the world can one toilet paper roll cost Rs 3700? What kind of a treadmill's offered on hire for one and a half month at the price of 10lakh? As you begin to read the list of prices for these things it makes you laugh and frown at the same time. Buildings on the verge of a collapse, grounds with stagnant water, ceilings of asbestos, these are the conditions that the CWG committee has decided to provide world-class athletes. 87 trips across the world, even to countries that aren't commonwealth countries, make you see that the games were used as a means to spoil themselves with uninhibited luxury. At the cost of the nation's pride, they have far surpassed all possible notions we had about corruption. Such open misuse of the tax payer's money, such hoarding of cash has never been seen before.

Think of the number of athletes who have trained day-in and day-out for the last few years, hopeful of their next Commonwealth victory. It's unfortunate for them that Kalmadi and Co. were given responsibility to build adequate infrastructre for the games. If only they knew how incapable these people are. Now the country has to somehow, come hell of high water, build this entire thing. In 2 months!

So here's an interesting option to the ballot. Apart from the list of people we add, we must also add another option which says 'none of the above'. Quite obviously no one does anything about preventing these people trying to become leaders, we can at least do something about rejecting them all, can we not?

But to do that, imagine the 'chakravyuha' of corruption we need to get through. Daunting, so we give up. :) Unless we wanna take up the challenge and put our life, our family's life in danger. The only downside is that after these buffoons spend crores on campaigning, it'll allow some more buffoons to campagin with some more crores; thereby making space for expenditure of more corrupt money. And then these rejected candidates would reveal their true 'thug-spirit' and wreak havoc on all those who vote for 'none of the above'.

Can never escape it, can we? We now resign ourselves into folding our arms across our chest, sighing, shaking our heads in despair and sit down to discuss it over dinner.

Ending this blog with citing the most obnoxious statement made by the senile 80 year old Union Minister for Sports and YOUTH (lol) affairs, Mr. M. S. Gill, who said in the Parliament while discussing about the CWG fiasco, "Rab sab kuch sambhaal lega".

ROTFL.....! Even God wouldn't wanna get into this insane mess, Mr. Gill.....!