How Politicians Switch Parties Right Before Elections For Selfish Gain

India is the largest democracy in the world. It had marked the historic victory of non-violence over the Britishers by the setup of the democratic machinery. Many countries were inspired by India’s independence struggle and it’s obsession with democracy.
After independence, the freedom fighters decided to run the business of the country through a well comprehensive Constitution based on the spirit of democratic principles. One of the democratic principles were the elections, which they had decided to hold just after the Constitution came into effect on January 26, 1950.
One of the nationalist parties i.e. the Indian National Congress directly indulged in the freedom struggle and came in the limelight in the first general elections of 1952 and won it with an absolute majority by defeating other regional parties. With the passage of some years, INC lost some of its confidence amongst the citizens and paved the way for parties like the Communist Party of India, Socialist Party and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. These parties won major state assembly elections subsequently.
According to a report in the Times of India in August 2015, the Election Commission said that there were 1866 registered political parties in India.
In this era, people now see Indian politics as their profession. and every third person wants to join political parties with the dream of a beaming career. In Indian politics, when any supporter or leader serves his party, he makes sure he himself gains some position within the party in return for his service. When the elections draw near, he dreams of getting a ticket from his party in order to cement his allegiance and service for the party.
And now with the coming state assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Manipur, Uttrakhand, Goa and Himachal Pradesh in 2017, former Member of Parliament from Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency, Navjot Singh Sidhu defected from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to the Indian National Congress (INC) in order to get the ticket for the state assembly elections and there are also speculations that he would also be made the deputy chief minister if INC wins the elections.
In Uttar Pradesh also, a top leader of Bahujan Samaj Party, Swami Prasad Maurya changed his party from the BSP to BJP and also got the assembly ticket from the latter and is going to contest from the Padrauna seat. Even he was considered amongst the loyalist leaders of BSP Supremo Mayawati. INC also had a defector from their ranks. One of their top leaders Rita Bahuguna. She joined the BJP by resigning from all the posts of the INC and got a ticket from the Lucknow cantonment in the forthcoming elections.
Rashtriya Lok Dal cannot be left out from these rifts. The RLD legislator also left his party and joined the BJP in the elections and also secured his seat from the Barauli from the BJP.
Many top leaders of the political parties changed alliances. For the sake of their own future, they make a fool of the general voters to ultimately gain power in the elections. They don’t even show their fidelity to their own party. Yesterday, they raged against one party, and tomorrow they joined the same one. Navjot Singh Sidhu before joining the INC said, “I am a born congressman, this is my ghar wapsi.” Swami Prasad Maurya said that he felt suffocated in BSP and Mayawati auctioned tickets for the polls.
They want to sneak off from one party to another. I mean the general voter can’t make a distinction either between the political parties or their political leaders. A political leader doesn’t bother about the serious issue of the citizens.
Political leaders are supposed to be the representatives of the public. The voters cast their vote within the assurance that politicians will eradicate their problems. He will sort out the general issues among the communities, he will take the initiative for the betterment of their lives, he would help raise their standard of living. But when a common voter sees this kind of a mess, he loses his hopes in democracy. He thinks that in this lifetime he wouldn’t enjoy that life which he dreamt of. He thinks democracy is the curse on him. He is tired of the political instability.
So, before casting our votes for them, we should first sort out the basic queries from them. Why do they do all this? Why are they not serious about the issues of those people who have placed them on that prestigious position? Why don’t they perform what is expected of them? Why do they think only about themselves?

Should we become a Good Samaritan ?

In this highly technological world, our desires are being fulfilled very conveniently. We use the technology very efficiently in order to achieve our goals. We need not to be bother about how the things get to be done. The era of internet made our lives more simple and interesting.
When we used to communicate with a person sitting so far, we need to wait for a long time and also the mode of communication is not so highly advanced.
Similarly, if we used to go for a long distance we don't have the better transportation facilities, but with the passage of time we have advanced our technology and we have all those convenient transport by which we can go in any corner of this world within a short period of time. On the other hand, we have created a laundry list of the problems of ourselves.

In the 21st century, every one have their own transport vehicle. With the increase in the number of the vehicles. Our record of road accidents went up drastically, and we suffer a vast number of unnatural death of human lives. Not only accidents have the contribution in losing of lives, but the turning reluctant nature of bystanders also contributed for this too. In 2014, on an average 16 people were killed every hour and 387 every day in road accidents. According to the 2014 annual report of the National Crime Record Bureau, 4,40,898 cases of road accidents took place that year, killing 1,41,526 people. Research published in the Indian Journal of Surgery suggest that 80 percent of victims fail to receive emergency medical care in the 'last life hour'. Bystanders often appear reluctant to help the injured because of the fear of legal consequences if one's actions are ineffective or harmful, or fear of involvement of in a subsequent investigation.
According to the WHO report, "generally people do not die of severe injury. they die of airway obstruction. a bystander can easily open the airway through simple methods like jaw thrusting or chin lifting."

To address this, the supreme court in the historic judgement on 30th march in SaveLife Foundation v. Union of India issued directions empowering bystanders to help accident victims. the court said "it is absolutely necessary that good Samaritans feel empowered to act without fear of adverse consequence".
The Central Government published the guidelines in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section I dated 12th may,2015 for protection of the good Samaritans. The Central Government issue Standard Operating Procedure for the examination of the good Samaritans during the trial by the police and they are as follows:
1. The good Samaritans will be treated respectfully and without any discrimination.
2. The police won't force any good Samaritans in elicit or extort information or anything else.
3. The police won't compel the good Samaritan his or her name, identity, address in the police record form or register.
4. The concerned police official shall allow the good Samaritan to leave after having informed the police about the injured person on the road, and no further question shall be asked if the good Samaritan doesn't desire to be a witness in the matter.
The guidelines, will not only protect helpful bystanders from unnecessary legal hassles, but will also reward them for their acts. They recommend stringent action against police officers or doctors who harass people acting in good faith or who refuse treatment to accident victims. Delhi Police issued an Advisory after the December 16 gang rape incident where the victim and her male friend lying unattended on the road for a long time, As per this advisory, who brings an accident victim to hospital victim just needs to leave the patient at the hospital and go. He or She doesn't need to see the police for any legal formalities.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued the guidelines that no public or private hospital can demand payment for registration and admission cost from the good Samaritans. The Good Samaritan can choose to be an eyewitness and cannot be compelled. Section 284 of the Cr PC allows examination of a witness through a commission and Section 296 of the Cr PC allows evidence to be given through and affidavit. Karnataka is set to become the first state to have a good Samaritan law.
Piyush Tiwari, founder and CEO of SLF says, "the challenge at present is that people are unaware about their legal rights as good Samaritans."

A bystander can play a game changing role in saving the lives. They can call for help, provide first aid to the injured and even rush them to the nearest hospital, if the ambulance does not arrive on time.