The Great Indian Tamasha
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Various news channels have given various names for the count down to the elections. I choose to call it this….
Politicians amuse me :-)…I think they are better than any reality, or saas bahu show coming on the idiot box… Think about it, which reality show will give you as much entertainment? And as the elections come closer I think they are loosing whatever little sense they had.
So now we have vague/ weird polictical parties who have no ideology in common (if they know what it means) coming together and making the 3rd , 4th or is it the umpteenth front. I somehow do not understand the point of all these fronts being formed. Even if they come to power, they never seem to last beyond say 6 months. Didn’t we all see it during the VP Singh, Deve Gowda and God knows who time… Ahh I understand – they want their names in the list of prime ministers, even if it be for a few days… I pity school children though. The poor things need to cram the whole list.
Then we have some politicians whose only claim to fame is inflammatory speeches against different communities, threatening police officers for doing their job or banning Valentines Day and attacking women as if these were the priority problems that India had – whatever gets publicity right!
We also have betrayals and all of the “you stabbed my back” drama as well. Parties moving out of coalitions, friends turning foes. Not just that, they also call each other names. I wonder how opinion changes so soon, especially when the same political party formed the crux of their coalition. Its amazing to see the so called leaders of our country bargain for seats to contest in the elections. Its almost as if they are bargaining for vegetables with a local vendor.
I wonder where people like Mr. Nehru, Mr. Patel etc have disappeared.. I wonder how these idiots have come to rule our country… I wonder whether the jaago re, lead India sort of campaigns will work and our educated class along with the “youngistan” will vote…. I wonder whether the votes will actually make a difference since it’s a case of one worse than the other…
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Politicians amuse me :-)…I think they are better than any reality, or saas bahu show coming on the idiot box… Think about it, which reality show will give you as much entertainment? And as the elections come closer I think they are loosing whatever little sense they had.
So now we have vague/ weird polictical parties who have no ideology in common (if they know what it means) coming together and making the 3rd , 4th or is it the umpteenth front. I somehow do not understand the point of all these fronts being formed. Even if they come to power, they never seem to last beyond say 6 months. Didn’t we all see it during the VP Singh, Deve Gowda and God knows who time… Ahh I understand – they want their names in the list of prime ministers, even if it be for a few days… I pity school children though. The poor things need to cram the whole list.
Then we have some politicians whose only claim to fame is inflammatory speeches against different communities, threatening police officers for doing their job or banning Valentines Day and attacking women as if these were the priority problems that India had – whatever gets publicity right!
We also have betrayals and all of the “you stabbed my back” drama as well. Parties moving out of coalitions, friends turning foes. Not just that, they also call each other names. I wonder how opinion changes so soon, especially when the same political party formed the crux of their coalition. Its amazing to see the so called leaders of our country bargain for seats to contest in the elections. Its almost as if they are bargaining for vegetables with a local vendor.
I wonder where people like Mr. Nehru, Mr. Patel etc have disappeared.. I wonder how these idiots have come to rule our country… I wonder whether the jaago re, lead India sort of campaigns will work and our educated class along with the “youngistan” will vote…. I wonder whether the votes will actually make a difference since it’s a case of one worse than the other…
