1846..851.. Everyone Won !!!

30th August 1609
400 years passed...and now it’s
30th August 2009 :P
11:45 AM
Did you vote?
Levara nee yabba..voteyyali pada..
These were the words I heard at the beginning of my day.
FYI..This is not the scene on the day of general election polling of India, but much of a similar context... The BITSIAN SU elections.
Here at BITS we chose our own Prez and Gen-Sec every year through a more or less unpolitcal-political process. Though the scenario is better than many cases we see these days, It’s no exception that we are in the so-called prestigious premier institute of India BITS-PILANI.
Bouncing back to the point, those ........[censored in the interest of general public]... woke me up saying it was the last one hour. As soon as I tried to recollect the complete thing, and come out of ma hangover [don't mistake me huh..it’s just due to a continuous 13 hour-deep slumber], some thing flashed into my mind. Something like a storyline, that I’ve been seeing for the last two years.
When I met this thin-lean-bony-funny guy through another thin-lean-bony-funny guy in my early days at BITS, I or maybe none of us imagined things would turnout this way. Towards the end of the first year, for the very first time, I heard the thing right from the guy during wing-pols, two questions popped into my mind that very moment....
1) What the hell does he think of him?
2) How the hell does he think he can do it?
That very next moment, he gave an explanation..It was something simple and clear like this..
As I am planning t contest for Prez in our 3rd year, It would be helpful if I be a Hostel-representative in ma 2nd year. For winning as a H-rep and further issues, It would surely do good if I have a promising wing.
One more funny-thing
During his birthday celebrations, while we were teasing him, he disclosed this thing. He was imitating a senior’s way of putting both his hands in his pockets while walking and that senior was then expected to contest the elections. However that didn’t happen due to various reasons.
This almost flattered me. At that moment I thought he can do it!
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you..and then,YOU WIN - Mahathma Gandhi
I began to see this happening. Gandhi wasn’t wrong.
That brings us to the second year during which we were wingies and now YES!
I am damn proud to say that we were wingies.
I’ve never seen this guy before midnight in the wing. Always discussing something or the other with the King-Maker as we used to call him. As expected by everyone, and as a result of his groundwork, he won as a H-Rep with a huge majority and sent the signs that he’s going to be the ONE! This was not the crucial part. The way he stuck to his points of the manifesto and the way he worked to fulfill his duties as a H-Rep clearly laid his foundations. He instilled faith in the inmates and gained the support of batchmates. That brings us to the end of the most colourful year of any BITSIAN, the second year.
He didn’t even rest during the summer we had after 2nd year, the PS 1. PLAY SCHOOL is a more apt title than PRACTICE SCHOOL. They worked and made everything ready by the time we were back in campus for our third year.
Soon began the process of elections. Nominations were invited and unlike previous years there were 4 nominations for the Gen-Sec . But, as earlier , there’s no change in the presidential nominations.
Our guy’s nomination was filed as expected by everyone and we also began to see few new faces coming into picture. Campaigning period, AUDI debate [more precisely AUDI ragging] were as usual with a huge support base for our guy. As the day of polling neared, the opponents,devoid of all their methods of striking back, started so called ANTI-CAMPAIGNING. This raised few eye-brows and more importantly various doubts over the thin-bony-lean guy’s victory. Regionalism always played a crucial role in BITS and this time It’s not only regionalism. It’s the faith, the assurance and something more.
All this might have lead some other person to lose all the hope, but in this case, It further increases the zeal. He began working even harder, harder than ever before. It was something like now-or-never scenario and everyone put themselves in completely.
Hmmm..I woke up...went straight to the common room, and with no second thought in mind, cast my vote.
And at about 5pm in the evening, we heard people screaming, and we went towards the insti to know the result.
This time truly, I felt something inside me rushing. Then for two continuous hours, we shouted, screamed, laughed, cried, rolled on the floor on seeing some people..It was a mix of emotions.
We went to each bhawan screaming out whatever we wanted to...from the last two years.
We felt like we conquered the whole earth and there’s nothing more to do.
We moved in procession carrying the guy, throwing him up, dancing..
After all this I began wondering, He’s not my brother.. None of us were his relatives...But everyone felt as if it were their victory, everyone was happy for him, happy for us.
Finally, It’s not he who won the Presidential election.
The fact is WE WON...Yess!!! WE WON!!!
Mahathma Gandhi once said
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you..and then, YOU WIN
He’s no Superman, not a 10P, not a great guy..he’s one of us, who did all this.
He may have faced a lot of hurdles,lot of opposition, lot of criticism, lot of many more unwanted things. But, Gandhi wasn’t wrong.
Yess!! We WON !!!
Thanking everyone responsible....Congratulating MARIO and company [King-makers :P and all that stuff...]
This one’s truly for you Sudheer a.k.a MARIO a.k.a
Sudheer Babu Marisetty, the President of BITS SU
won:1846 majority :851
Excuse me for any mistakes and feel free to leave any comments.
Thanks everyone once again.
Reference : hopeasyoubreathe.blogspot.com