Building a new party with national outreach in a country like ours is almost impossible. Even if you found the motivated leaders who want to do so, they'd be crushed in infancy and hustled out by the heavyweights by hook or crook. Those in power are too powerful to let anyone take a piece of the cake.
So what do you do as a voter when you see the Government choose dick measuring propaganda over actual safeguarding of borders and national security? What can you do when secularism itself faces blatant abuse? When majority of media seems like party propaganda and misinformation is rampant by design? You may look at Congress and see the corrupt, inept and selfish 'leaders' who are content with the power of the opposition and have no real desire to change or help the nation. Will you vote for a Gandhi again, so you can avoid bhakt-raj?
I chose to vote for my regional party TRS instead, both for State and for Centre. These are the people I see affecting my city and improving the society I live in, so I voted for them. Now in the wake of their Covid based deception, I feel like it's the same question all over again just on a regional level. KCR will never let another Telangana based party truly rear its head and we are once again left with no options because there is no opposition and there are no checks and balances. So what do we do?
The more I look at US, Brazil or us, the more I feel like democracy is a failed experiment.