At the time of every election, people get confused about which candidate to vote for. But the big question that every voter needs to deal with is: do any of the candidates actually deserve to be in politics? 

During an election, we all decide to vote for the right candidate, but every time, we fail. We fail not because our decision was wrong but because we don’t have enough options to make the right decision. We want to elect a person who is right but a question that arises is who the right person is? As we all know, a lot of the candidates, who contest elections have criminal records and some of them even contest straight from jail! 

These people don’t even know the meaning of politics but what they certainly have is contact with the previously elected candidates, who were voted to power by us.

Now I am 19 years old and I have a voter card in my hand but I don’t know who deserves my vote. I know the fact that nobody is worthy enough for my vote because I can’t hand over the future of India in the hands of those people who don’t understand anything about politics. I can’t take this risk with my country because I want to see India at the top.

We need politicians who have the courage or confidence to give India a new direction.

A few months ago, during prime minister Manmohan Singh’s interaction with the editors, someone asked him a simple question about who should be the role model for the youth and he gave a very diplomatic answer saying our youth don’t need any role model. But the fact is that our representative did not have the courage to stand up and say: I, the representative of India, am the role model of the youth.

Anna Hazare, the social activist, who made the whole of India stand up and demand an anti-corrupt nation, or Kiran Bedi, should be our role model. We need representatives who can understand what people want.

We need ministers who can give India a new direction and whom we can trust to make the right decisions.