Placards vs potholes

A Bengaluru girl is taking to social media to get the attention of the authorities in charge to get her city fixed. With Bengaluru’s municipal elections around the corner, 23-year-old artist Vidhya Shree said she was returning home from work on Monday and saw an autorickshaw campaigning for a political party that promised to work for the people and was inspired to begin her ‘No Road, No Vote campaign’.“We’ve seen the same thing from so many years but still they’re not doing anything,” Vidhya said.

She added, “So I went to my studio, made two placards and went to a spot on the road. I thought I would just keep them there and take a picture, but once people saw me, they wanted to join in. So I just told them to stand near the pothole and I clicked their pictures,” adding that a 13-minute ride around her locality, Rajajinagar, and a mobile phone is all it took for her to kick-start her ‘No Road, No Vote’ campaign.

The campaign and her posts have since gone viral on Facebook, and dozens more people around her area enthusiastically joining in the campaign, and even passersby posing with the ‘No Road No Vote’ placards. While she hopes that citizens in other parts of the city too take part in the campaign, and that it makes people realise that people in power need to follow up on their campaign promises.