It is all about the vote bank, but will it work?

Opium is legally cultivated in India. In Saudi Arabia, where anyone caught dealing in drugs is beheaded, morphine injections are available for treatment of patients in hospitals. Not in India. Morphine is not available anywhere, except maybe in some government hospitals. A lot of chemists do not even stock ordinary anti-allergy injections, like Phenergan and Avil, which have been around for at least 5 decades, because of the fear of harassment by inspectors. So draconian are the rules. Why? So that drug addicts cannot access drugs. Has it stopped drug use? No. Drugs are apparently freely available on all college campuses across Delhi. Even children are routinely using drugs. The result of the stupid law is that thousands of cancer patients are dying in agony because doctors cannot prescribe opiates, while addicts are using drugs freely. If you drive around India your progress will be interrupted every couple of miles by speed bumps. Why? To stop accidents and protect lives. Have they stopped accidents and protected lives? 400 people die in traffic accidents everyday, 1.3 million have died in the last decade. 1,46,133 died in 2015, which is a 4.6% increase over 1,39,671 in 2014. Cheerful statistics. This is the principle of collective punishment practiced by politicians in India to cheer up their vote bank. And it is very effective. Number of students is much higher than than the number cancer patients. Cancer patients are invisible at home or in hospitals and they are very unlikely to vote. Whereas a mother crying over the death of a son from drug overdose makes a powerful emotional appeal on TV, hence show that you care by punishing genuine patients. Same with speed bumps. India produced 3.22 million cars in 2014-15, while China produced over 20 million. India has about 18 cars per 1,000 people, hence the vast majority of people do not possess cars. Speed bumps are evidence that everything is being done to protect the poor. If a few of the same poor, who generally travel by two-wheeled vehicles, fall over the speed bump and die, it is a sacrifice in a good cause. As is the sudden withdrawal of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes from the circulation. This was done to eradicate black money. Those hiding millions of rupees, without paying tax, will suddenly find them useless. Wealthy people do not keep their money in cash. They buy assets, such as real estate and gold. If they lose a few millions, so what. They will write it off a loss in business. Migrant labor, who have no bank account, will end up losing the little they have. Is it a permanent cure for black money? Not from past experience. So why do it? Because very important elections are coming up next year in UP, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Goa and political parties rely on black money to bribe voters with drinks and saris. Will this move give an advantage to the BJP or will it backfire because of voter anger. We shall see.