Posted on October 9, 2007 - by rdilipk1

Politicians or, Politico-DONS

Are our leaders worthy of being leaders? Can we entrust the responsibility of runniing the affairs of this lovely country in their hands?Why are we following them so blindly?’, ‘

This photograph is of one of our leaders; a politician who is leading one of the most mineral rich states in India. For me a leader is somebody whom I would emulate, I would want to follow, whom I would consider my ideal. Is this person in the photograph worthy of it.

Read below an excerpt about him in one of the leading dailies and I bet you would not want to emulate him. But alas, he is somebody who is running the affairs of the country. The dailies very proudly writes, “Politician turned DON”. But who made this man a politician, a leader. We the foolish citizens in this democracy.

“Such is Anant”s terror that his mere gaze at a building sends shivers down the occupants” spine. The other day he was driving through in his Mercedes when he stopped by a building and got out – almost simultaneously the cops got a phone call with a quavering voice at the other end complaining that Chhote Sarkar was looking in the direction of his house.”
- Excerpt from the Times of India.

When a hindi movie like the “Gangajal” or, “Shool” is released there is much furore about the contents in this movie. We burn theatres and movie-halls screening these movies because we feel it is maligning the public images of our leaders. But have we vere thought, if these leaders are worthy of this respect.

Compare the above photograph with a famous politician-cum-don-cum-villian in a movie (below)

and the rest of the story need not be narrated.

Not a single politician in our country has ever been punished, however heinous the crime was. He walks away spotless and so will this politician too. We too would forgive him and his crime of raping and killing an innocent girl and would again vote for him and make him our leader; a Politico-DON. Wake up my country. Lets stop behaving like those insanes in a mental asylum and destroying ourselves.