What's with our political leaders/politicians and their boring hackneyed speeches making tall promises and comparing their periods in power with the present dispensation, dissecting the rule of the present lot and yet again making tall claims about doing this and that for the development of the state and region if given their umpteenth chance to rule the same......
If nothing else, these speeches are almost exact replicas of each other and sometimes leads one to wonder whether they were generated out by some two bit script writer in his/her sleep and then cyclostyled and circulated amongst the hoi polloi belonging to India's numerous political parties........
An intense scrutiny of these speeches would reveal that they are nothing more than bluster, false promises and hot air, singularly lacking in substance, direction, aim, or then blueprint for the future; and what is even more consternating is the fact that these very same promises are churned out in one political rally after the other and then conveniently confined to the dustbins of history as soon as one political party or the other assumes the seat of power......
The election manifestos of these very same parties are an even bigger affront to the intelligence of the much maligned common man and always include promises to provide free televisions, mangalsutras, laptops, bicycles, ten grams of gold each to all wannabe brides and bridegrooms and if ever honoured in dribs, drabs and in locations that remain in the limelight and media glare........
Whatever happened to the much touted politics of development and the tall claims made on national television and television studious by party spokespersons and high and mighty leaders about the standard of political discourse in this country having evolved from caste and creed based dialogues to rhetoric related to development and issues that effect the every day lives od the denizens of that particular are and region.........
We would do well to emulate the universally televised debates that show the US presidential candidates and prospective senators debating issues like foreign policy, creation of jobs, tax cuts, mediclaim and other welfare measures instead of calling each other names and making dubious and hollow claims about my corruption being far lesser in comparison to your corruption........
Will the much abused and caricatured Aam Aadmi ever see the political discourse in this country rising to the level where he can make a clear distinction between those committed to his welfare and well being vis a vis those who are out to plunder the coffers of the state and nation conveniently using the concerns of the Aam Aadmi as a stepping stone........
One can expect anything else but the above mentioned discourse to materialise in the near future in a country where 55% of it's citizens do not have access to basic sanitation facilities even after 65 years of independence or where hapless women have to traverse a minimum distance of fifteen miles to fetch a pithy pot of potable water......
The politics of development needs to take centre stage and the issues dear to the hearts of the common man should not only be debated ,discussed, but implemented in a time bound manner; but then what was that about wishes being horses and beggars riding them..........
If nothing else, these speeches are almost exact replicas of each other and sometimes leads one to wonder whether they were generated out by some two bit script writer in his/her sleep and then cyclostyled and circulated amongst the hoi polloi belonging to India's numerous political parties........
An intense scrutiny of these speeches would reveal that they are nothing more than bluster, false promises and hot air, singularly lacking in substance, direction, aim, or then blueprint for the future; and what is even more consternating is the fact that these very same promises are churned out in one political rally after the other and then conveniently confined to the dustbins of history as soon as one political party or the other assumes the seat of power......
The election manifestos of these very same parties are an even bigger affront to the intelligence of the much maligned common man and always include promises to provide free televisions, mangalsutras, laptops, bicycles, ten grams of gold each to all wannabe brides and bridegrooms and if ever honoured in dribs, drabs and in locations that remain in the limelight and media glare........
Whatever happened to the much touted politics of development and the tall claims made on national television and television studious by party spokespersons and high and mighty leaders about the standard of political discourse in this country having evolved from caste and creed based dialogues to rhetoric related to development and issues that effect the every day lives od the denizens of that particular are and region.........
We would do well to emulate the universally televised debates that show the US presidential candidates and prospective senators debating issues like foreign policy, creation of jobs, tax cuts, mediclaim and other welfare measures instead of calling each other names and making dubious and hollow claims about my corruption being far lesser in comparison to your corruption........
Will the much abused and caricatured Aam Aadmi ever see the political discourse in this country rising to the level where he can make a clear distinction between those committed to his welfare and well being vis a vis those who are out to plunder the coffers of the state and nation conveniently using the concerns of the Aam Aadmi as a stepping stone........
One can expect anything else but the above mentioned discourse to materialise in the near future in a country where 55% of it's citizens do not have access to basic sanitation facilities even after 65 years of independence or where hapless women have to traverse a minimum distance of fifteen miles to fetch a pithy pot of potable water......
The politics of development needs to take centre stage and the issues dear to the hearts of the common man should not only be debated ,discussed, but implemented in a time bound manner; but then what was that about wishes being horses and beggars riding them..........
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