{"id":2946,"date":"2024-08-30T07:28:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T07:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afflatuscreations.com\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2024-08-30T07:33:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T07:33:59","slug":"election-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afflatuscreations.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/election-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2946\" class=\"elementor elementor-2946\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a719701 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a719701\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-943617c\" data-id=\"943617c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-167d575 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"167d575\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Election Manifesto<\/strong><\/h4><p>Politicians have become great retailers<\/p><p>Selling their wares with great fanfare<\/p><p>And aggressive ads\u00a0\u00a0 and\u00a0 fervent election rallies.<\/p><p>A village voter is very happy and glad<\/p><p>To receive a bottle of liquor and a live chicken<\/p><p>Others are lucky to have received smart mobiles<\/p><p>And registrations for health insurance and<\/p><p>Guarantee cards for cheaper electricity and gas.<\/p><p>Politicians make promises galore<\/p><p>Provision of ration to the poor<\/p><p>Provision scooters to the girl students<\/p><p>Pension to old people<\/p><p>A pucca house to every household<\/p><p>Laptops to all the First Year Students.<\/p><p>The list is endless .<\/p><p>But the voter knows<\/p><p>Once the\u00a0 election won<\/p><p>The elected candidate<\/p><p>Would disappear for five years<\/p><p>From the wistful eyes of the electorate.<\/p><p>In the dance of democracy, let discernment prevail<\/p><p>Structured promises, not mere ships to sail<\/p><p>Beyond the rhetoric, let substance secure<\/p><p>A symphony of governance steadfast and sure.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Sagar Mal Gupta<\/strong><\/p><p>Educated at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hawaii, Sagar Mal Gupta earned<br \/>his Ph. D. in Linguistics from the University of Hawaii USA. He has fifty-six years of teaching<br \/>experience of English language and Literature in India and abroad. He has published four books<br \/>of poetry in English and his poems have been published in a number of national and<br \/>international journals of repute.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Manifesto Politicians have become great retailers Selling their wares with great fanfare And aggressive ads\u00a0\u00a0 and\u00a0 fervent election rallies. A village voter is very happy and glad To receive a bottle of liquor and a live chicken Others are lucky to have received smart mobiles And registrations for health insurance and Guarantee cards for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Election Manifesto - Afflatus Creations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Politicians have become great retailers Selling their wares with great fanfare and aggressive ads and fervent election rallies.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/afflatuscreations.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/election-manifesto\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Election Manifesto - 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