Today our Prime Minister was all over TV screens, answering questions from journos. Well not exactly answers but expressions, hopes and some answers. Any one going through his answers to questions on Spectrum issue, A.Raja, Naxal problem and Inflation worries would get a sense of Dejavu. There is nothing new in those responses (I desist from using the word answer anymore) from our PM. He himself wouldn't be satisfied with those responses if he were to be in the shoes of questioners or among one of us looking forward to answers.
Honestly, I did not expect him to give proper answers. Then why am I whining? I am because of the state of our politics and the way democracy is practiced in our beloved country. No one in power is accountable. People dare not question them. If you dare then be ready to face the wrath which may come in many forms from boulders to acids. Things have only worsened in the last 20 odd years of my close observation of Indian politics and the way democratic values are upheld here. Constitution has become another Bhagavad Gita, which is often quoted but not learnt or followed. If you have the power you can bend anything.
Coming back to the title of this post, what have they (UPA) achieved in the last 6 years that NDA did not in their term. What we have come to witness is mediocrity across the table. No one is different. Nothing separates anybody. Comrades are no better if their handling of affairs in their last bastion is anything to go by. Indian politics is commoditized. You are not going to get anything different by voting to 'X' or 'Y'. Now, how helpless is that?
We can all live, surely, because we all have thick skin and conveniently ignore things. That is, show apathy to things and issues you consider as beyond you. We are going spineless and even many of us are becoming abettors (கூட்டு களவாணிகள்) by taking bribes to vote and availing freebies where not eligible. May be, as people say, we deserve what we get.
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