POLITICS

Why we HATE POLITICS!

We love sports. We love movies. We love music. But we hate politics!

If you think that I am going to give you some moral lecture here that you should love politics, then you are thinking wrong. What I intend to write today are the reasons why we hate politics. Why we have the right to hate politics! Why exactly we change TV channel when our dads look at political news! Some of the reasons may have come to your mind by now. The corrupt politicians, their gundagiri, the scams, etc. etc! You must be thinking the reasons are obvious! There is no need of contemplation here. Don’t worry! I am not going to bore you. I intend to do my Mann ki baat with you. I am confident you will love it.

Very rarely people like Mr. Arvind Kejriwal, Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi bring their charm in the world of politics and there is a sudden interest in politics! We are drifted to politics and there is a sense of commitment in our following. But sooner, negativity looms on the world of politics again and all our enthusiasm washes away. The feeling All are the same settles in us until some new charismatic leader comes to spray his aura all around!  You know what I am talking. I don’t want to go in the ongoing scams of NDA or instability of AAP. The end result is always disappointment in politics.

During elections, there is a lot of hype on the importance of voting. Voting becomes easier when charismatic leaders express their noble intentions all with confidence in their heroic style making the nation deewana. After a year or so, the same hero becomes a yet another neta and all the deewanapan vanishes! You see we have all the right in losing this deewanapan. The foremost reason for this I feel is lack of competition and excess of allegations. Congress and BJP fight everyday on the scams of one another and we expect them to fight on who performed better. Which infrastructure is built, what is the success ratio, how many projects mentioned in the budget completed, etc. etc! There is never a debate on these.  I mean to say you will find M S Dhoni accept defeat, make a comeback, enable India win the world cup after 28 years! You will find Rafael Nadal defeat Roger Federer in Wimbledon 2008 and still say that Federer is a legend! But you will not find Mr. Rahul Gandhi praise Shri Modiji’s Swachata Abhiyaan! Also, you will certainly find Mr. Rahul Gandhi in the forefront in protest against the land bill! I ask why this one-sided appearance!

You will find the actor Ranveer Singh’s tweet with a photo of him in hospital during his injury saying that the shooting of Bajirao Mastani is on hold but he will come back soon. You will not find Mr. Rahul Gandhi working with a mission say, removal of malnutrition, while BJP is in power. He would travel in local trains, stay with the poor farmers, but what is the goal! What is his mission! What success did he achieve in it! Have you ever found Mr. Sharad Pawar speaking to media like this: The goal of automation in agriculture is on the go! We have targeted 5000 villages and the idea is successfully implemented in first 1000! I certainly have never. You will find Shri Modiji asking to share a selfie with daughter but not saying that he failed in his promise of 24 hour electricity he made a year ago. He will not accept that his governance is affected because of the ongoing scams and give assurance that he will make a comeback!

Politics is a complex field! It will never be popular as cricket or Bollywood. But politics is more important than cricket and Bollywood. We do remember Sachin Tendulkar’s entire batting statistics but we don’t remember the worth of most recent rail budget. And it is definitely not our mistake. Who will show us the implementations of the budgets, the progress reports, etc. The toppers of IIT-JEE will be found all over the newspapers but such is not a case with IAS toppers. All that happens in politics is allegations on one another with no definite conclusion. We find solace in making jokes and cartoons of politicians! And this is certainly not our mistake. Politics lacks that ability to make us ‘Wow..’ You see we have all the right…

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