Slugfest or SlugFeast

This is pure exhilarating stuff. For the past week or two , a dramatic paradigm shift has taken place where the celebrities have been relegated to the hermit . What Shah Rukh Khan is saying about IPL , whom Shilpa Shetty is marrying , is Preity Zinta  single or ready to mingle with Santwal , what tactics our publicity hungry Rakhi Sawant is upto would have been headlines grabbing stuff. Debates , Experts would have jumped in to lend perspective . But not now , it is not their time , for it is Elections 2009.

 It is the most colorful affair in the political itinerary studded with choicest leg pulling , allegations , accusations and frivolous emotional rhetoric. It is the Dance of Democracy where russle and tussle of politics , the good , the bad and the ugly is unleashed before us. 

I am told by my mother , that in olden times , for our grandparents especially grand mothers it was an occasion , a festival where the trip to the election booth was studded with folk songs recitation , bridal wear as the dress code . It might look a bit apologetic now , but what it highlighted was the true emancipation of women . The women confined to the four walls found an expression to make themselves count , have their say in the selection of the supreme CEO of the country.

Now that Uncle Sam has smitten us , how can we be far behind in eulogizing the benefits of presidential type of debate between the two prime ministerial aspirants. It is in the interest of democracy that it should happen so that the people can decide whom should they vote for. The argument put forth by the weakest prime minister ever to rule a country , is admission of the fact that the debate is not tilted in his favour. By putting forth arguments such as Advaniji is a great public speaker , the prime minister has sent a message that only garnishing matters , the content is all farcificial . Does he think the electorates of India to be so gullible. Nowhere people judge debates on the oratory skills especially on political platform . Had that been the case the world's best debaters would have been rooling the roost. It is the content and the structure that decides  the course of debate . Good public speaking does not precede substance but follows it . 

And even if assuming , MM Singhji does not match the oratory prowess , is it not his duty to make himself capable enough to compete. As a PM , you are not supposed to do the manual work but lead the nation , build public opinion . Is it not a hindrance  which the MM Singhji is openly unaashedly flaunting.

I see a more sinister design in his campaign. I see that by highlighting his wekness , he is trying to create a sympathy wave to counter the the volleys of the opponents. 

As for priyanka , what an immaturity she reflects ? Is congress only designated by her ? Is she anywhere in the electioneering but for campaigning for his brother whom she sees a potential  PM material . It is a this lacuna between power and accountabilty that has severely crippled the country.

As for Rahul gandhi , the dude is proper dud. You just got to hear his speeches . The content , the ehortations are so decadent , that it smacks of lack of substance , lack of innovativeness . For how long you can keep praising your family and enlisting its virtues of having laid their lives fighting terrorism ?  Does the argument stand ground considering the fact they never went to the battlefield , lived in the most protected or cloistered surroundings . I think this (Con)gress is just the antonym of (Pro)gress.

About Mr Arjun Singh, he has mastered the art of shirking commitment in any of his statements. The statements are open to interpretation  reflection of the rebel in him as well as intrerpreted by some of his sychophants as his statesmanship. Remebering AS, one thing comes to my mind. At the peak fervour of Reservation agitation , the media  hifglighted that MM Singhji was not a party to the Central Educational Institutional , 2007 just as Mrs Sonia Gandhi. It was his personal agenda to manoevre his political career. What a lie , What a lie ! If this guy cannot get tickets for his son and daughter and yet go to the extent of campaigning against his own blood citing himself as a true guardian of his coomitment to Sonia, would that have not stopped him from pursuing the most divisive agenda of reservation if vetoed by MM Singhji.

It is a matter of fact that India's largest hindu majority has been relegated by the heads of the government who happen to be from the minority one a sikh while the other at least by faith a christian.