Wednesday, February 8, 2017

This is what happens in a democracy.

There never is a dull moment in this country. The politicians give us plenty of reasons to laugh at with the idiotic things they do. Let's go through two such events.

 (a) The drama that's going on in Tamilnadu.

       The 130 MLAs supporting Sasikala have been shepherded, herded to an unknown destination
       and will be flown to New Delhi and paraded in front of the President of India to show that she
       has the majority support. She's already staked a claim to the post of chief ministership. Her
       calculation is that if she were to become CM, the fallout of the Supreme Court verdict on the
       'disproportionate wealth accumulation' case pronouncing her guilty could be cast aside saying
       that the people know her well and that she's done no wrong, which is script number 1 of this
       story. She can, further, earn her spurs to face the mandatory six month period within which
       she needs to win an election to the Assembly.

       Meanwhile, the Governor has delayed his return to Madras so that he doesn't have to hurriedly go
       through a swearing-in ceremony. This is based on another script being written on the same
       story with the connivance of the center. An add on script is Shri. Panneerselvam's sudden
       defiance and subsequent actions. He has also become the darling of many in displaying his
       sense of humour by his retort to Sasikala's quip that his loyalty to the party was suspect because
       he smiled at the opposition leader, Stalin, during the Assembly proceedings! "Human beings
       smile", was the gist of his retort! The ever silent man has come out of the shadows.....

       Yet another instance of real life imitating reel life, in Tamilnadu!

  (b) Shiv Sena playing the spoilsport.

        Udhav Thackeray and his party are miffed that the BJP is no more scared about their activities
        and words ever since the passing away of Balasaheb. In fact, the party has become the secondary
        partner in the alliance and their hooliganism has been seen through by the people. Udhav
        Thackeray, seemingly to regain lost ground, has done the following over the last few days:-

             (i) Announced that Hardik Patel - the votary for including Patels in the reservation quota -
                  would be the face of his party, the Shiv Sena, during the Gujarat Assembly elections
                  due, this December.
            (ii) Along with the fringe group, Hindu Yuva Vahini, his party will contest in 150 seats in
                  the UP Assembly polls to split the BJP's chances.

         Desperate games being played by a desperate guy, just to remain in the reckoning!


Tailpiece.

The beauty of democracy is that anyone can dream of being the destiny maker because it doesn't require any qualification!

       

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