They Are Coming To Vote

They are coming to vote, cast their votes for Or in favour or, But I think, What have they After casting votes, Using franchise, Giving a mandate? On seeing a conglomerate mass Of the half-clothed and the half-fed, Poor and living somehow, I feel it within, What have we For those struggling masses? Today India is free, We are not under any foreign yoke, We can speak freely, Express as we like, But why is this poverty, Why has it not developed? They are coming to vote, cast their votes for, In pursuant to Canvassing And asking for a mandate, But we silent about welfare, development and progress, The eradication of social evils. I think it, what have we really for, All those coming to vote for, How far have we come up to their expectation, What have we given to them, Remembering them just time at this time? Today India is free, We are going to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary, But what have we for the humble and the poor, What have we for them Coming to vote, exercise their franchise, Ready to give a mandate?