Saturday 4 January 2014

Performing the last rites of the government

The student who saw the teacher, who saw the accomplice, who feared a scuff to the headmaster, who neglected all these as mere trifles.

Now read with replacing the student with RaGa, the teacher with MMS, the accomplice with SiDi, and the headmaster with SoGa. Does it make sense now?

He spearheaded the campaign in UP and was thrown to dust. He spearheaded the campaign in the fab-four states, and again his party was forced to bite the dust. I can not recall, any successful endeavor by the scion, reported till date, in education or politics, apart from the affair with the drug-mafia's daughter; still, the man who called only three press conferences in ten years, and was Hermetically sealed, now presages a doom, if Namo came to power. Isn't it seems ludicrous by degrees?

NaMo is at least a tested leader, who leads the number one state in India--in economic development. He has had transformed himself from a tea-seller to a leader par excellence. But, the question at hand is, does India needs a learned person at the helm or a good manager and executor of the policies, which will usher India into a new era of development and self-confidence or a mask?--which will cast doom for another five years.

The medieval history of India is replete with the stories of Kings and invaders ruling efficiently in India. Take the example of Sher Shah Suri. He was the lowest ranked soldier in Babur's military, very little educated. But, the Grand-Trunk road, Land endowment, Tax-collection phylosophy, Welfare Programs, Subsidies, alongwith other measures were not only exemplary then, but is ubiquitous even today. Take other names and you will witness the same results. Learned man have headed the Institutions, not governments. But, India has set an example, and shown to the world--how to have a mask and execute the ill-designs comfortably.

It is the coterie of ministers, who either let you make a niche in the citadel of history, or let you be remembered as Nero or ...Sadly Mr MMS, we have witnessed a lot of ministers caught or involved in the scams. Then the question rises that were you the teacher and guide to these treacherous and lecherous leaders, or were forced to be hermetically sealed? Having rescued India from an economic disaster in 1991, please don't guide India to redefine its economic nadir. You have been suitably rewarded of your heroics and futuristic policies for ten long, sonorous and reclusive years. And Indians are in no mood to offer you luxury for another five years. Who knows, our neighbours will quell us from our homes. They loiter so easily in Ladakh, they come and behead our soldiers and return derisively on us and our leadership. And we keep them giving food and onions on a concession rate.

It will take more than five thousand pages and will be a Herculean task to enumerate your sins and folly in governance. But, pithily, it is--Economy has been crushed, inflation sky-rocketed, communal harmony tattered not once or twice but a number of times. And you along with your saver were busy partying when the last reported riot effected victims were dying due to cold and food and healthcare. But, yes, our great ancestors have coined a word communalism, which is not only enigmatic to you, but us also. After all, hailing from majority community has cursed us to be called communal. Have you heard--When Rome was burning, Nero was playing flute?

If yes, then take your last press-conference was an obituary in advance--a ritual--which is common in few communities in India, when the father suspects his sons/daughters doing his last rites. And yes, as his last wish, he has hinted his successor. He can infer and hint, but was unable to read or notice the degree of corruption in his own government. What a learned man India had had for a decade. Let's hope that the India does not witness the same type of leadership. For, leaders have ruled India, and will rule India again; but no leader had ever ruled, might, could, would or should rule, as he has ruled India.

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