Unfortunate saga : Indian Politics

India is my country.

All Indians are my brothers and sisters.

I love my country and I am proud of its rich and varied heritage.

I shall strive to be worthy of it.

I shall respect my parents, teachers and all elders and treat everyone with courtesy.

To my country and all my people, I pledge my devotion.

In their well-being and prosperity alone lies my happiness.

Jai Hind.

Remember this? One of starting pages of our school diary. Whenever my father would boast that my son can speak English and wanted me to give a demo, I would immediately without a breath blabber this pledge out with my hand straightened out. Whatever be my speed, I actually meant every word of the pledge that I took every morning in my school’s assembly premises. Truly speaking, as a kid I used to take pride in being a part of this country and its rich and varied heritage. But lately, as I have become more aware of the society and the way it functions, sad to say but my love for India has a bit deteriorated. I remember, once my conversation with a friend got so intense that I hit him just because he was speaking bad about India. Today, when I recline and think about the same, I realize that he was probably right and I wrong.

Today, I am not feeling very great about this whole politics thing. I am not very strong at Political Science, but I am not very ignorant too. Let us talk about some of the great politicians that our country has produced. Mayawati ji, the Mahamaya who likes getting her statues erected in public parks. Who on earth does that? Madam, are you trying to imitate Saddam Hussain? He is not the right person to be followed. Choose some other idol. Please don’t do this with the public money, we will erect your statues and garland them every year in case you do enough to the state to command that sort of respect. The ground rule remains the same, “Respect is not demanded. Respect is commanded”. Another similar example is Jayalalitha, who got her photo printed on the laptop her party workers distributed to the students. They could not get the party logo on the laptop because Jayalalitha herself covered the whole space and left none for the logo. Do you really think such people who are so obsessed with being CM can actually do justice to their position and power? Anyways, I like Mayawati, the only thing I like about her is that she did not marry to produce another of her breed. Then there is Master Akhilesh ji, trying to imitate Rahul, both of them striving to be youth icon. I consider Raghu from Roadies to be a better youth icon than these two. These people are actually incapable of doing anything that pertains to ruling a state. I unfortunately, being a native of Etawah, UP has to bear their governance.

So, Akhilesh is now talking of a third front, bhaisahab! your dad is too old now. I know you are doing all this for your respected dad, but the truth is that he has -0% chances of being PM. Please concentrate on your career and hoarding money because next time it’s Mayawati’s turn to be the CM. You’ll need some money then to continue with the same lifestyle for the next 5 years. Just see Mayawati, does she give you the slightest hint that she is not in power? No, right?? Because she was intelligent and has a lot in reserves to survive till death. You suspended an honest IAS officer with the explanation that she was demolishing something that could spark communal violence. Sir, it will take you another life to even mug up the index of the books that she has read. She is far more learned and wise than you and your sand mafia’s whole generation combined together. Please bring some sense to your actions. We expect a lot of you. And a good news for you, Mayawati’s demand for 4 partitions of UP!!! This ways, all 4 major parties in UP (SP, BSP, BJP and Congress) get to rule and every supremo gets to become the CM. This is actual “Divide and Rule”.

Rahul sir, sachchi bolu, Sonia ji by now should have told you “Beta tum rehne do, tumse na ho paayega”. You are too young and immature to be the PM of this country. I think you should chill out in some foreign country, spend time on beaches and do whatever you want to. I am sure your mom can send you enough pocket money to enjoy all the luxuries in the world. Everyone actually makes fun of you. You are the Abhishek Bachchan of Indian Politics, riding on your parents’ success. You are simply not politics material; there are some basic elements other than being corrupt that are needed to be a perfect chor. Just look at Manmohan ji, he is so smart. Just because he cannot control his tongue, he does utter a single word till he is in public eye. I know you are too naughty to listen to your mom, so please get the fuck out of here and take Robert Vadra along. He too is doing us a lot of harm.

BJP, aap bhi koi bahut seedhe nahi ho. Please stop politicizing every damn topic, but then everyone does that. I know you are about to finish with your bank reserves and need to come to power once to survive another good time in case you lose to Congress again.

Coming back to India and taking pride in it, I want to feel the same as I did in my childhood. My grandfather and father both served defense services and they recite stories of the wars that they were a part of. If a common man who is just trying to make a living can be so true to his duty, why can not a person who has been nominated by public do so? I know, I do not vote and hence do have a right to comment on them. But then, if I do not cast for the correct person I also do not cast for the wrong person. I am not able to think of a solution right now as to how a common man will get off these shackles of slumber or will he die a slow death amid the so called the largest democracy in the world, India.

PS : They are my own views and I do not mean to hurt anybody's political sentiments.