The one person whom I wouldn't trust when it comes to matters of trust chooses to enlighten us about trust 🤷🏾♀️
When last year in March, this whole fiasco of bringing down the democratically elected Kamal Nath government played out in the background of a - then still nascent - pandemic, I was at a loss for words.
I was appaled at how fickle minded our politicians can be at times, and how they keep on reaching lower and lower nadir in the field of what is supposed to be their profession.
When such things happen it really makes me wonder with what interests such people enter the sanctified arena of public service. I mean, does the ideology, which they swore allegiance to mean anything at all? How easily these people are ready to abandon, that which is is not merely something they bought or borrowed, but is the very edifice on which their own thoughts and principles are built! What, then, is the surety that tomorrow, these people won't sell away our nation to satiate their vested interests?
Now, one may list a thousand reasons to justify Jotiradithya's jumping ship. But no justification can take away the fact that the man, literally within a matter of days, was ready to give up on all that he, not just believed in, but also professed and even seemed to practice. Was it all just lip service? All those interviews, all those speeches, those promises made to the people?
To the ruling party I ask, what do you seek to achieve through this? 'Cause this ain't leading to no "Congress Mukt Bharat". Rather you are with your own hands laying the foundation for Congressification of BJP. Really, how can you be so sure that all the legislators and parliamentarians that you've managed to cajole into switching sides won't usurp your voter base and chip away at the tenets that define your party and it's ideology?
And now, coming to the Congress. I don't know what to say about the party that refuses to believe, even after being routed in two successive elections, that this nation of 136,64,00,000 people doesn't revolve around one family of 3 people! If there's one thing that I've learnt from my short time on Earth, then it is that not even the thoughest and the smartest are immune to defeats. Which is precisely why one must take it all in one's stide and move on. Yes, you were the biggest political stage perhaps the biggest ever on the face of earth. Yes, you were a party of the likes of Gandhi and Nehru. And of course it was your very party that ushered the nation towards freedom. But all that was in the past. Now you have been stripped of power and the faster you accept that fact and move on the better it is for both you and the country. Get up and get going. Roll with the punches. If you need some motivation put on your headphone and groove to Katy Perry's new song. Heck! Organize a core committee meeting (or whatever it is that you call it) and group jam to it on loop... I don't care what you do, but please if not for yourself, then at least for the sake of carrying forward your 'illustrious' legacy, become a better opposition party.
Needless to say, if such activities continue to take place at the rate at which they're happening then the day is not far when the only thing differentiating the two main national parties would be the genre of music they listen to!
IndiraLakshmi
05.02.21
