As of this moment we are seeing two of the biggest events on the Indian political theatre.....namely the UP Elections and the Presidential "Election"!!! And boy o' boy has it been akin to a classic Alfred Hitchcock movie as the plot gets thicker by the moment.
As for as UP goes, the casting has been done brilliantly with Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati as the lead actors. That is not to say the least about the brilliant supporting actors in form of the 3 Singhs(Rajnath, Amar & Kalyan), Gandhis(Sonia, Priyanka & Rahul) and special appearance by none other than AB Vajpayee & Lalu Yadav.
The UP Elections just go to show the nadir that Indian politics has reached. While the BJP has tried to up the rhetoric and the ante on the Hindutva & the Ram Mandir issue, the SP, BSP & Congress have been canvassing for the OBC & the Muslim vote. Thus, in the process, widening the already sensitive and tense caste equations. While on this issue, it would be so unfair to not talk about the Reservation issue, for the Congress & the UPA who have always upheld the 'secular' flag, the quota misadventure just goes to show how pro-minority their secularism agenda behaves!!!
Well reading the Speaking Tree column somedays ago, an interesting concept I came across was that of idol worship being just an initiation into believing the Formless. Well the analogy I can draw with the UP elections is that people will pin their hopes on various parties and there shall even be da weirdest of coalitions(SP-BSP...u muss b kiddin me), but in the end all the people of that great state shall find is that political parties are just shameless.
In the earlier days (not that I have personally experienced any...but having read speeches of luminaries like Jaiprakash Narayan & Morarji Desai...its a certainty) elections used to be fought on developmental issues with fiery speeches by leaders based on the ideology of one's party. And oh for the joy of today where leaders exchange mild notes on the criminal cases either one of them has been involved in!
Everyday there are new depths of shamlessness and indignity being reached by politicians. The remark by Mulyam Singh Yadav's brother that Nithari killings are a matter of routine and then the subsequent failure of the CM to even visit the area are indeed matters of great concern. "We the People" , as the Constitution proclaims, seemed to have been caught in this vicious circle of politics and money where to enable one to get into politics you need money and to get that money you either become corrupt or rob a bank and then become a criminal(which is the easier route to become a politician by the way)!
Coming back to the UP Elections, it certainly has provided us with utter VFM entertainment what with Rahul Gandhi making irresponsible statements about the Babri Masjid Issue and the India-Pak war of 1971, Amitabh B promoting the SP through sum slick(???) promos abt "UP mein hain dum", the battle of the bahus...Sonia Gandhi vs. Mrs. Big B.....oh if only some one would have paid a few crores more and roped in the newly wed Abhi-Ash into dis jumboree.
Well the UP results are to be expected in the next few hours, the political scenario has never been more exciting and in dire straits at the same time.....perhaps Epitah of the Indian polity in the making???
3 comments:
Was this the stuff you said was not good......let me tell you its really good stuff.......obvious of a thinking individual like you
have u considered a career in journalism ...seriosly ..??
Hey kavin very late to comment on this, since results are out. But seriously u shud become a part time journalist man........ superb riting...
Ashish A
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