Twisted forever

A politician's profession is just another profession. In any profession, when it comes to handling one's duty, the best is delivered and justice done to the job if no emotions come attached as strings to the post one holds. When he/she emotes in profession, it leads to personal prejudices, especially in politics. Evidently, we have all seen on television the maaramaari happening in the parliament sessions. When do we behave in a similar way? Sometimes within our family, within the four walls and with our dear ones; also, one takes to violence (say something like throwing the central government's chairs at opposition parties)when one is extremely angry, seething to revolt and take revenge etc. - which is as good as an animal's behavior. Outrageous! A few months back there was an article by Pratap Simha in a kannada paper on the language used by our politicians (Indians to be specific). A brilliant article! It would have been nice if a copy of that column was posted to every politician in state - Just as a reminder. (But yeah! like it would make a difference to them!)

The most frequently appearing space in kannada news is on "Opposition demands the resignation of the Chief Minister". Why? Because he stumbled on a stone?! Lets go to basic rule of resistance. Why opposition and criticism? - Results when what we think is right is not being done by the one who is actually supposed to be doing it(one with the POWER in hands). And it is not supposed to result in public and press meets just for the sake of doing it and with an intention to snatch the POWER! (Our politicians never give up on this! Every opportunity is well used). As Winston Churchill quoted “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” Criticism should always be healthy in nature and a thoughtful one; a step towards rejuvenating the system by pulling out the drawbacks. It should be such that the one facing criticism provokes within him the same thoughts and inspires himself to turn those thoughts into actions. What we see in the Karnataka government is nowhere close to these simple rules of criticism. Criticism for them is mere opposition. Opposition offered to root out the rulers. Verbally, it is called abusing. Abusing too is not the word. Vulgarity? Nope! I do not know what it can be called. In democracy, the role of the opposition party should be as a supporting entity; joining hands with the ruling government to attain the set goals in a stipulated period of time. Showing them and reminding them of their promises if they deflect from the actual path to be followed. Providing feedback, alternate solutions, plans, policies. Utilize the time for the betterment of their own party, so that they can achieve better than the present government in future. It plays a significant role in democracy and in many ways. What we see instead is a 24X7 attempt by the opposition to crush the ruling party; spy on their moves; create havoc in sensitive situations through the party workers to degenerate the ruling party's thoda bahut bacha hua reputation(remember when Dr. Raj Kumar was kidnapped or similar situation?). But, all of the available time is spent to bring out mistakes in every other move of the ruling party. Sheer waste of time!

With the instance of BSY shedding tears at every criticism he faces in picture -
It would be great if he takes it as a challenge and proves the critics wrong. Nobody is here to sympathize him or get carried away by sentiments. Because almost none of his subjects share a personal relationship with him. Do your duty, gain trust. Deliver your promises, get respect. Anyway, with the suo motto powers debate and the resignation of the Lokayuktha officer(to the exact point of 2 years "celebration" - it simply shows), I think it all reduces to "politics". Be it BJP or Congress or JDS! They all belong to the same class. The class of politicians, until death parts them. All these days I used to repent not casting my vote. It is the duty of every responsible citizen to cast his/her vote. And I was kind of ashamed that I had not. But, for the first time I did not feel bad for holding back my vote.