Democratic India!

The Bangalore weather has been the same for the last two weeks, no trace of rain, but cold moist wind sweeping the mother earth, the sky is covered with threatening clouds, as if the heavens will open the doors any time..a weather for which Bangalore is famous for. :) An ideal one to go out for a picnic or a trek!
The new chief minister of state of Karnataka has taken the oath, the first saffron rule in Southern India. And he is already facing the first crisis..farmers revolting for low stock of fertilizers. Like any other leader in the opposition party (Congress led UPA being at the centre), a stereo-typed political answer from a first time chief minister. He briefs the media and pacifies the farmers saying that the centre is not cooperating, it is not releasing fertilizer to the state of Karnataka. We listen, shake our heads and sit quiet.
Another state under saffron rule, Rajasthan..there is a deeper crisis going on there..gujjars want to be given a scheduled tribe status as promised during election campaigns..it has led to wide spread violence and bloodshed and not to forget the loss of national property and economic losses to the country. And opposition leaders of the state of likes of Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot sit in their chair with folded arms, describes it as an unfortunate incident and demand an High Court inquiry, and their job is done..again a stereo typed answer. We listen, shake our heads and sit quiet.
Now lets go to West Bengal, a state ruled for ages by the Left, an ally of the UPA @ centre. A bandh and "lal jhanda" has become a part of the integral culture there..A steep fuel price hike of Rs. 5/- had them go head over heals to declare a week long bandh in Left Ruled states, the flights and trains into Calcutta disrupted for two days, the city coming to a grinding halt for a day and half..people agitating..despite the whole world knowing that the crude oil prices are touching $138 a barrel, and the Left expects govt and PSUs to bear the burden, cut down sales taxes, the government empties the coffers. A very traditional answer from a Communist party, which believes that rich people are the immoral, despite Jyoti Basu's son being one the richest man in West Bengal. We listen, shake our heads and sit quiet.
Now lets come to the centre, the whole country is ruled by a lady residing at 10, Janpath...inabilities by her government is successfully covered up by putting the blame of the opposition. Left and congress hate each other, they are falling apart, but still they hold on to avoid elections, an election, which would have them voted out of power! Laloo Yadav is waiting to become the PM of India, afterall he has turned India's largest PSU into a profit centre. Sharad Pawar the baron from maharastra...one is unable to understand how he and Congress are seperate, same idealogies, same manifestos, but different parties! And the great art our honourable PM, Manmohanji (one of the most educted politician our country has got) and Soniaji have learnt of patting each other's back, the amazing way of befooling the mass..and then Rahul "baba" all of a sudden going to a Dalit house in UP and sits in a dharna there, to let the world know about his concerns for dalits in a state ruled by BSP, a dalit party..and the very next moment he takes a flight to see a match at Eden Gardens in company of Shahrukh Khan. And again, We listen, shake our head and sit quiet.
Five years go by...its election time, and we dance to the tune of democracy, oust the ones in power and get the opposition in power and blame it on incumbency! If there is no clear majority, buy MPs, split parties, house-arrest MPs in some secluded place, have them paraded before the President...people of opposite ideologies, who fought each other tooth and nail in the election, join hands to form one coalition ...and how it happens...Money, as its said money can buy "iman", do our politicians have "iman"?
The new rule begins with vows of change in policies, promise to undo everything done by the previous govt..some attractive policies are declared, some IAS and IPS officers are transferred, ...but then all cools down and netas become extremely busy thinking about comman man...you must be kidding....loading their pockets with hoards and hoards of money! This is democracy!
Isn't it all easy, so easy is the art of politics, so easy to make a fool of the man on streets of democratic India!? sujalaam sufalaam malayaj sheetalaam sasya shyaamalaam maataram...vande!