Billingsgate in Indian politics

'Change is eternal', you may have heard this adage, but watching and reading all the mudslinging and the barbs and the new revelations; before the five states going to the hustings, change seems to have gained more jerky pace in context with the Indian politics.

I have heard Mr Vajpai several times,  Mr Advaniji, Late Mr Rajiv Gandhi, Mr. Devegoda and several other leaders before they were not Prime Ministerial candidates, but their language was never such abusive. I have seen the pin-drop-silence in Vajpaiji's rally in Patna on three occasions, every time the audience was more than the last time. But, I'm not seeing the same aura or respect in and around so many leaders in 2013, of course, the numbers are more by degrees.

Gone are the days of literate and humble politics and politicians. The need of the hour is of using abusive language or derogatory terms to show the prospective voters who are sitting on the fence that they are more viral when it comes to abusing, it seems. And the Indian Dons have used the MC, BC, BW like terms so often in Hindi films. And it seems that these devoted and learned politicians have gone through the Machiavellian theory and Billingsgate; after all, India, more or less draws its inspiration from its last rulers and their ways.

And knowing the background of many politicians, it is not amazing to hear such terms. Because, such terms are prevalent in slums and chawls. But, the same language was used in palaces, is above my head. It would not have been. There are nomads who are here to not only malign the Indian culture but the etiquette of a good leader also. After all, they are on a defining odyssey of Indian politics.

I have not heard any non-sense talking even from Mr Yechuri or Mr Navin Patnaiyak or Mr Sachin Pilot, why then they are using these terms. Win the hearts by your thoughts of taking India further in technical, agricultural, social, and other fields, not by the language you are using now. Otherwise, the days are not far when a PM will ask another PM in the same language or he will ask his party members or the people of the nation in the same taboo language.

 BJP would have won in all the three states, if anyone was made the election in-charge, and may have finished neck to neck in Delhi--only by the deeds of the current goverment at the center. Watching all the hype and controversies around the PM-in-waiting, I again come to the same conviction that Shusmaji was and she still is, most suitable for the PM's job.