The Importance of Elections

The first motivation for us to come up with something like MOV was the Imagine Cup '09. The real theme of the Imagine Cup this year is "Solve the toughest Problems of the World". We have spent countless nights, debating whether MOV can be one of the solutions to the toughest problems of the world, like poverty, education, health, environmental sustainabiltiy,etc. I have always dwelled on this ever since we finalised the whole concept for the Imagine Cup. all this changed a few days back. The motivation is no longer Imagine Cup. The debate has reached a conclusion. An the doubts have melted away.

I was in a CT scan center the other day. I found a baby there which had undergone a brain surgery. I was shocked!! Ever since that day I know for a fact that MOV is not one of the answers but THE answer to the toughest problems of the world.

I was shocked to realize that such an inocent little thing would have to go through a brain surgery. Such realities of life dont strike us when we read about them in the newspapers. What really set me thinking, was the fate of all the unfourtunate children in the world who dont get 2 square meals a day and may be in need of such medical care and support. What about them?? How can we help them? How can we care for them? How do we know that a kid is even suffering from a disease? How do we get to them? I thought of a number of resources and instituions that could be put to good use to reach out to the unfortunate ones in this world. But all of them seemed inadequate compared to the uphill task in front us. That is when I realised the one orgnization, institution, formation, framework or whatever you call it, that can not only achieve the goal I am talking about here but a pelothra of other goals towards the betterment of this world: THE GOVERNMENT of any country.

The Government of a country alone has the capacity to solve all the problems of a country comprehensively. A government alone has access to all the resources of a country. It alone has an overall picture of the problems of the country. It alone can be the best judge of where the country is, where it can head in the time to come and how it can move towards progress rather than distress.

This is why it becomes even more imortant for the Government in power to be composed of responsible induviduals who are willing to put their country before themselves. Every country has such individuals. So I will trash all those remarks which claim that such a thing exists only in never-never-land. The challenge is to find such people. People who are ready to lead their own country.

And thats where something like MOV comes into picture. The concept with its simple and efficient method of voting makes it simple for the public of a country to take interset in elections and the counrty in general. With the likes of MOV better governments will from. People will take a lot more intrest in the development of their country which these days is not a less thought of thing but a "never" thought of thing. That is important. Once that happens in any country, then that country will fast track towards prosperity.

Its time we realised this and MOVed from the shackles of darkness towards that alluring light.

Vijay Krishna
The Tripod