Should educated people vote?

Elections are near and many of the educated people don't want to vote because they find none of the parties suitable. But here the question arises that in a Democratic country how a person could stay without voting as this is govt. by the people for the people and of the people. If someone is not making use the 'by' thing then he should not deserve the 'of' and 'for'. So as a part of democratic country we should vote.

Most of the people think that if government is not doing anything for them then why they should vote. But the reason they don't work well could be that they always try to please poor and uneducated because they know that this is the sector which vote and they don't work for educated because they know that educated people will not vote. That's why they make such policies which are helpful for poor but not for country, e.g. relieving the farmers of loans, because they know that farmers will vote in their favor. But if they will come to know that educated are going to vote then they will be scared of making such policies because ultimately it will affect their vote bank.

Now I have given the valid reasons to vote and it's up to the reader now to decide that have he still not to vote???

A few days back, I watched a debate in Rajya Sabha on a Private Members bill. One MP wanted to make voting compulsory. Since it is our right, it should be our duty too - he contended. But, he forgot that this is India. People get away with murder and rape. What is the law going to do if you fail to vote?

I was chatting with a guy I met on IM about the way our country is being run and I had this weird idea I thought of long ago. He was eligible to vote for almost 4 years but and he had never vote so far. The simple reason for this was that he really doesn't care. He told that none of the candidates really deserved his vote. And there was no way he could express that. So why not insert another option along with all the other names on the ballot paper saying 'none'. And for every vote that says 'none' deduct 1 vote from all the other candidates. I bet most of them will land up with negative number of votes.

So, again should an educated person vote???

The decision cannot be imposed but it's in the hands of educated people.