Political 'IF'

It is because nobody is listening to the national and social problems. We are bad listeners, but possess the gift of the gab (note our MPs trying to speak elaborately in the few minutes time allotted by the Honourable Speaker). We don't believe in terseness and economy in operations.

The message from this feedback is that the voters (citizens) are not at all happy with the political performance (regardless of the regime in power and the unpredictable opposition). The people are tired of political impositions, right, left, and off the centre. The negative political image is a warning to the political leaders to reform the political bases and start on new tracks. Even old distilled water in new bottles and packages won't do. The workers will change with the revised preamble to reformed political approaches (theoretical guidelines sound so abstract and uninteresting, compared to vociferous lathi misil).

If our politics could be better, we would have passed the seven percent Growth Rate mark (as India is reported to have done) by this time (14 long years of democratic practice!). If the political camps could have displayed more accommodation and tolerance (the latter is also an Islamic virtue, like planting trees, as BTV tells us). What we have is the Intolerance Factor (IF) in politics! We are trapped in IF-politics! we need a new tune: iffy-iffy band music.

If wishes could come true, then the sky would be the limit. Nobody is willing to look down at the feet, planted on the ground (matri bhumi). There is a problem in choosing options: start with the root or the branch? The evasive question is: if a tree has no root or trunk, then the branch came from where? Plant more trees!

There are more items on the Option Check-list. Which comes first: nation or party? Charisma: when to ditch? Internal democratic practices: How's that? Too many political googlies (dusra!). Too many appeals for lbw. No empire? Well, we are slow movers; try to hit sixers all the time, and get angry when we get caught. Our political bouncers do not travel at 100mph. The political ground is bumpy, water-logged, and has no boundary. The weather never right for [political] cricket, a gentlemen's game (during leisure hours). Our politics is not only a full-time job, it is overtime-voluntarily, laced with ardent dedication! The fielding side do not relish the job all want to batfor ever. Too many lara-lappas around!

There is no conclusion to this tirade. The debate continues!