Is It Democracy

Is it Democracy Is it democracy When a ballot is sold for A few hundred rupees A free meal, or a bottle of country liquor? Is it democracy If after gaining free Government For sixty-nine years Majority can not read and write And at election time Wooed to voting booths With tall promise? What meaning it has For a country poor Whose stomach burns out of hunger Or for that farmer Who commits suicide As he can not pay back Bank loans.7 If democracy stands for Liberty, equality and justice I think we are far way behind. Let us work to make it meaningful Where freedom means free mind Ballot is not sold Equality is not in name sake Equal opportunity to all in true sense Let the elections be fought for human values Where not ballot, but life counts.