Why we cannot be a politician?

The common refrain is to ask us to vote. If there are no good ones in the fray, people like us are asked to enter into politics. I don’t think people like us can enter the world of politics given the stench and shameless depths it has reached today. Here are some of the reasons:

We would never have the gumption to say that Mumbai belongs to Maharastrians and go into hiding when a couple of “outsiders” become martyrs while fighting the terrorists who laid siege to Mumbai. We would have come out in public, apologized for the mistake and appreciated the commandos. We cannot be cunning and deceptive.

We would never hold a city to ransom for a political rally and later justify saying that urbanites don’t understand the pain of farmers. We would have trembled with fear and come out in public seeking apologies for the inconvenience caused. We cannot be apathy personified.

We would never require a tele-prompter to address the nation when terrorists have laid siege to its commercial capital. Our emotions would pour out and extempore we would criticize the act and try to assure the citizens of Government’s commitment. We would not be worried about using politically correct words nor feel detached in times of national grief.

We would never come in public and make a statement “such incidents take place in a big city like Mumbai”. We would never say that there was only a general warning and not a specific warning about the attacks. To begin with we would have acted on each and every warning we get and not waited for a call from across the border saying that we are going to attack your city at so and so time, at such a location. If the event had occurred despite best of our efforts, we would have immediately tendered resignation owning moral responsibility.

We would have never taken a film director to inspect the wreckage of Taj Hotel and later had the insensitiveness to say “He is not a terrorist”.

We would have never been so obscene to say that but for Sandeep not even a dog would have visited the Unnikrishnan household. We would have never taken 4 days to condone the death of a brave son of India no matter which state he belongs to. We would have never been busy discussing future electoral alliances in a polit bureau meeting when the country was burning.

We would never lampoon the protestors based on their cosmetics and attires. What did this crass politician expect the law abiding citizens to do, block traffic, burn buses, damage property. Possibly that is the only meaning of protest he understands.

The average Indian can never make the cut in the present political sphere of India. Things have to change and yes, we are responsible for it.

There is no point in voting for the same set of guys. Go to the voting both, get your finger dyed, tell the polling officer you don’t want to vote by exercising the option under Rule 49 O. Make the entry in the register “Not interested to vote” If the rejections exceed the number of votes polled, a re-election is ordered, but the rejected candidates do not have the right to contest again. Yes, your identity will be revealed to the polling officer and party workers. So what, our ancestors could take on the Britishers head on, why we can’t do it in one election.