Sir,
It would be wrong to say that it is ‘election time’ in the country. It would be better to describe it as ‘Season of shifting loyalties’. Day in and day out, we see politicians shifting their loyalties at the drop of a hat. No sooner does a poltician comes to know that he has been denied a ticket to contest elections, than he quits the party. He loses no time in slamming his present party and singing peans of the party he intends to join. In politics, it has been rightly said that there are no permanent friends but permanent interests. The upcoming parliamentary elections clearly reveal that ‘Aaya Ram, and Gaya Ram’ culture is still intact in the country and till democracy throbs here this culture would continue to flourish.
All political parties-whether national or regional have no hesitation to jettison their ideological mask to accommodate people with or without ideology. The target is to cobble a group who may emerge victorious and share power and pelf.
People on their part too do not have any problem with power hungry politicians even if they have a tainted background as long as they swear by religious or caste creed. Merit does not matter, nor does the integrity of a person.
In India it is ‘Jaise praja, wayse neta’.
Yours etc….
Vishant Kumar, Jammu
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