Even More Rotten Souls!!!

"Politics", according to Aristotle is a system whereby few men run the government in their self-interest...when few people rule for the overall good of the citizens, it is called a polity.
Anyways, the technicality aside, politics is understood mainly as a system to govern the country.
Once,politics used to be a ground where enlightened people were to be found aplenty, anywhere in the world... George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,Adam Smith and so many.Of course there were unscrupulous people too...like Niccolo Machiavelli,Napoleon Bonaparte, Bismarck, and so many more. But these men had a vision for their nation...the Germany as we know it owes its existence to Bismarck,though his policies promoted an aggressive Germany on war path;but if not for this great statesman, one can only wonder what would have been the fate of Germans.Napoleon did for France single-handedly what generations of emperors could not.

Coming back to India. We have had our own set of politicians.Some were of such calibre that the world marvels at them - Chanakya, Ashok, Samudragupta, Kanishka, Harshvardhan,Akbar, Madan Mohan Malviya,Tilak, MK Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose, Sardar Patel.

If one starts dwelling on each of the above mentioned person's contribution to India, a whole book will have to be compiled, may be in several volumes.

But where are we today and why?

It is fashionable to say that Gandhi planted the seeds of such politics when he let the partition happen as he had a weakness for Nehru.Similarly, some say that he himself was selfish and people point towards Bhagat Singh as an example.Well, this i will talk about later,because I am not interested in defending Gandhi now.I am more interested in knowing where we are and why?

Well, first of all, if we are so smart that we know that Gandhi was wrong(and this is so because we have the benefit of seeing in the rear-view mirror of Indian history),then why do we not learn from it? why?

We abhor Nehruvian politics.At least many of us have the penchant for saying so,then how come we vote for a party that stands for that even today!

It was Nehru who because of the fear of losing power gave in to the regional politics.He gave in to the politics of linguistic identities as has been discussed in another post too.I would be very happy if anybody can enlighten me on the difference between Congress of that time and the Congress of present.Yet we vote for it. We have been silently watching the Indian politics become a fiefdom of few families. Nehru-Gandhi family, Abdullahs,Deoras, Cahavan, Yadavs, and many more, the list is long.These young scions get constituencies as heritage.Gullible voters are charmed and affected by glamour to vote for them.Do they even have a vision? Are they worthy enough to be called 'leaders'?
When Rahul Gandhi won election from Amethi he announced projects worth Rs 180 crores for Amethi.Why don't other constituencies get such princely sum?

Because not everybody is 'the' Rahul Gandhi.

Not only that.A great circus has been going on since last few weeks.Sample this:
1)Mayawati gets garland worth few crores,she is unperturbed...has the guts to order the police investigate into the matter concerning bee attack on her rally.

2)HD Kumarswamy in Karnataka says that he has no problem with criminals contesting elections if they are "popular".Well guys,. I suppose we can loot a few banks,distribute some money and get a ticket from Mr. Kumarswamy.Even better,guys get organized,collude with Maoists and then come back after a brief stint.Dear Mr. HDK will allow you all to contest in elections.He doesn't have a problem if you have messed with law and order! Who does? actually nobody!

3)The champion of OBCs and Muslim rights has the guts to make demeaning remarks about the women who contest in elections in a public rally.

4)Raj Thackeray...

The incidents no longer enrage me,rather i feel ashamed, hurt and sad,ashamed that these people represent India to foreign dignitaries.Imagine a sexual pervert talking to foreign dignitaries and making lewd remarks about the female ones afterward. Thank God that Veerappan is no longer alive or he might have been contesting an election too.Hurt that even "educated"people also fall for goons like Thackeray.

what more can one say.Wake up! We are the generation x.It is our duty to think for the country.Let us rise above the petty divisions of caste, religion, language, region etc.Let us work for the India that we all want it to be.If not anything else.Let us educate people.We can begin from our respective homes.