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Today's Headlines in "The Times of India", "Pranab Mukherjee Roughed up by fellow party workers". Interesting isn't it? To my non-Indian readers, Mr.Mukherjee is the Defence Minister of our country. Equivalent to Mr.Rumsfeld. Supposedly an irate mob took charge of a large convention of "Senior" leaders of the Congress party-the ruling one- and roughed up most of them.
Such is the state of my land. The reason for this fiasco is that another leader was refused a ticket by the Party. So they vented their frustrations on the Minister. He got away with a light sentence. One of his colleagues got slapped!!
When I come to think of it, he deserves it. Actually every politician in my country deserves such treatment. Not the Z+ security that they get. The Z+ plus security can be justified only on one count; which is since they are such big criminals they must have the underworld hounding them fearing competition. They are a bunch of rogues. Nothing can describe them better.
India ranks second or fifth in the world when it comes to hatred for the politicians of the land. I think it's justified. We have milkmen who manage to swindle the government of 800 crores, guys offering bribes openly on television and then saying they were right, and worst of all: an ex-PM who slept in his chair during the Parliament session. How could anyone like these people? I have seen the priceless footage of Lalu Prasad Yadav-out Railway Minister, also the 80 crore guy-prancing around with a drum weraing nothing but his boxers being totally sozzled. This was at a Holi (an Indian festival) party. Quite disgusting.
It doesn't end here. There have been situations when there have actual fights in the Parliament. Mikes in the House were wielded as lethal maces, so much so that it caused people to admitted into Hospital. Ridiculous! There is this article that my classmate wrote as to why she didnt cast her vote. Shall publish it someday.
Reverting to Mr.Mukherjee, i think he had a bad deal about the whole thing because he didn't deserve it as it was not his fault, but he did deserve it for being Mr. Mukherjee himself.
Such is the state of my land. The reason for this fiasco is that another leader was refused a ticket by the Party. So they vented their frustrations on the Minister. He got away with a light sentence. One of his colleagues got slapped!!
When I come to think of it, he deserves it. Actually every politician in my country deserves such treatment. Not the Z+ security that they get. The Z+ plus security can be justified only on one count; which is since they are such big criminals they must have the underworld hounding them fearing competition. They are a bunch of rogues. Nothing can describe them better.
India ranks second or fifth in the world when it comes to hatred for the politicians of the land. I think it's justified. We have milkmen who manage to swindle the government of 800 crores, guys offering bribes openly on television and then saying they were right, and worst of all: an ex-PM who slept in his chair during the Parliament session. How could anyone like these people? I have seen the priceless footage of Lalu Prasad Yadav-out Railway Minister, also the 80 crore guy-prancing around with a drum weraing nothing but his boxers being totally sozzled. This was at a Holi (an Indian festival) party. Quite disgusting.
It doesn't end here. There have been situations when there have actual fights in the Parliament. Mikes in the House were wielded as lethal maces, so much so that it caused people to admitted into Hospital. Ridiculous! There is this article that my classmate wrote as to why she didnt cast her vote. Shall publish it someday.
Reverting to Mr.Mukherjee, i think he had a bad deal about the whole thing because he didn't deserve it as it was not his fault, but he did deserve it for being Mr. Mukherjee himself.
posted by Sunil Natraj at 5/16/2005 09:17:00 AM
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Well, Manmohan Singh for one does not look that bad. Lets see what he can do in the remaining years *fingers crossed*
Oh, and I've never voted, nor do I plan to ;)
Politicians no matter of there original intentions always seem to be corrupted by the power there given. I vote but never seem to find anyone I want to vote for. I mostly look at the ballot and see a selection between one asshole and the other. People keep talking about Kennedy as the last great candidate, but history has shown us how big of an asshole he is. I hope Colin Powell runs great warriors always seem to bring great peace look at Grant and Eisenhower. I'm tired of Iraq and the slaughter. Politicians get too much power too fast and they corrupt so easily
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Tsk. I thought that the whole of Britain hated Blair (bLIAR) but the election showed that is not the case...
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Returning the comment on my blog--hello and thank you for the complement. I was aware that brawling was standard in the early days (and possibly still) of Taiwan's parliament, but unaware that it was prevalent in India. Our Congressional proceedings in the United States carry many dangers to people (mostly other than the Congress), but fistfighting is typically not among them. And since the civil rights movement and Vietnam War protests of the 1960's and 1970's, we've had precious few widespread bouts of rioting. It seems that our consumer culture has successfully bred the fire out of us as a people. I'm not sure that's entirely bad, but wouldn't say it's wholly good either.
It's plenty easy to catch our politicians drinking and womanizing, but the public cares little about it, so the media gives it little coverage. Our national predilection lies in the dating lives of our film, television, and music personalities. But politicians aren't really respected in any democracy that I'm aware of. They're viewed as power-hungry, corrupt attorneys with small gifts for middle-management, often with good cause, as that type is drawn to a career in which power comes prior to occupational success. The first and foremost job of a politician, as Kennedy himself hinted at, is getting and staying elected. So I'm afraid that corruption is an endemic part of government, and throwing out the entire current crop of politicians anywhere wouldn't promise much better results in the future.
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