The Great Game of Politics
by "Politics is an art of breaking and making Coalitions…"
Politics. A game that has been played since time immemorial, where you have virtually everything at stake: money, status, prestige…
Politicians, I guess, are those pet creatures, who are regularly placed in the stereotypical jokes and poems of hasya kavis and stand up comedians, that traverses just on the verge of boredom and staleness.
In the country today, not many know about the recent past of the political system, and thus are severely mis-informed of the ludicrous incidents, the various events in the game of politics. Here’s just a lucid account of some of them…
1. “I am with My Father’s Killers.”
Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination didn’t attract sympathy from most of the Indian Tamil population. Instead, it was good riddance for them from the “hypocrite” Prime Minister. At the fore, was the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the DMK, that openly was against Rajiv; even plotted his assassination.
The DMK is just like what Vir Savarkar is related to Mahatma’s killing.
2004. The Congress snatches a surprising win in the general elections. In a bid to making the government, the Congress President, Sonia Gandhi, wife of Late Rajiv, joins hands to form the UPA.
Rahul works hand in hand with the DMK.
Such is the irony in politics, that you’ve to even work with your father’s killers…
2. “Never Mind You Maligned My Father-Brother”
We all hail Meira Kumar as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, don’t we? Though, why don’t you girls realize, that by mere tokenism of sworning a women as a President or a Speaker is just absurd and doesn’t in any case improve the status of women as a whole. Just that it washes away the urbane women bantering. Nevertheless…
So, she’s in the Congress, which is the same party, that at a time, 1978-9 to be precise, maligned her father, Babu Jagjivan Ram, and her brother, Suresh Ram, in India’s arguably first and sparingly known Politico-Sex Scandal!
In the words of Khushwant Singh-
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One day when I reached the National Herald office, I saw an envelope lying on my table. I opened the envelope, had one look and recognised who was in the picture.
Suresh Ram, son of Jagjivan Ram.
If the Kamasutra has 64 poses of making love, this one certainly had 10.
……….I conveyed the message to Indira Gandhi and she said: “First ask him to dump Morarjee and then only will I guarantee the pictures will not be published”. It never happened.
………They were so graphic that we could be sued for obscenity.
Suresh and his father Jagjivan were great womanisers. They often used to share their women between them.“
For the full article, check out at-
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/proj_tabloid/khushwant.shtml
Such are the travesties in politics…
Politics is a game of possiblities…
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