10-06-2006, 08:09 PM
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--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Came across this article by Mera Bharat Mahan who is an IT prof at Clifornia, USA(no more details could be traced):
Politics: A religion with -No entry- board
My maternal grandfather was a freedom fighter, spent most of his early life in jails and after independence of India, he joined politics, ran for an election and was a legislature from a small constituency in Bihar. Sticking to his ideals, he didnât even think of bringing his children to politics and my mother or my uncle and the coming generation ended up remaining as ordinary people. There were many others whose children never joined politics in their life e.g. Dr Rajendra Prasad the first president of India.
Some others did it differently. The biggest role model was our first prime minister Nehru whose next three generations have been in power and it would go even further. It ended up creating a big conglomerate of rulers for whom, politics become like a family business which they keep passing on to the next generations. People like Scindias, Pilots, Deoras, Thakres, Dixits, Yadavs (Mulyam Singh), Abdullahs, Sayeds etc. are some of the examples from a long list.
Now there is a list of opportunists such as Mayawati, VP Singh, Mulayam, Lalu Yadav, Advani, Vajpayee who used peopleâs emotions and sensitive issues to quickly come to the power and add to the conglomerate.
More people like journalists, industrialists and even criminals joined them because the mainstream guys wanted to remain in the power with help of money, publicity or muscle power they needed to remain in the power.
All this has created a big âreligionâ of politicians. This religion prohibits anybody from joining unless they fulfill five basic criteria for joining politics. These criteria are:
You quit any religion you already follow or the cast you are in. You can keep the name though and your old religion on papers as they might be needed. By doing this, you enhance your qualifications to create rift between other religions.
You should be a close friend or relative of a politician. Closest the relation, quickest will be this religion in accepting you.
You should have lot of money to invest in different âpolitical venturesâ i.e. fund some campaign, pay to big guys for getting a seat in Rajya Sabha or just become famous somehow!
You should be a criminal with big muscle power and be able to âfight for the religionâ which means killing people who speak right against wrong or wrong against wrong.
Make sure that anybody not fulfilling any of the above four do not convert to this religion. It might involve killing the guy, involving him in a false case or just mudslinging on him. You might need to associate with your biggest enemy to achieve this.
Additional to that, there are some âNice to haveâ qualifications. Things such as âNo self respectâ, âAbility to deny your own statementsâ, âChanging allegianceâ, âMudslingingâ, âSycophancyâ etc. etc.
Now I look at myself and find myself totally scared. I probably do not have any of these qualifications and the fifth basic qualification scares me even more. I am probably better off being part of my own religion.
I have seen others suffered because they didnât check the qualifications completely before they decided to join politics. Remember, my favorite Big B who came to politics with a big bang. He had some of the qualification but he failed on the additional qualifications and the poor guy had to leave the religion. There are other examples such as Rajeev Gandhiâs best friend Arun Singh who recently disclosed his bitter experience with his best friend. Recently, a UP legislature Krishnanad Rai who challenged another legislature with basic qualification number four, was killed.
At the other side, we have Rajeev Shukla, a Congress MP who used to interview politicians on Zee TV, made some good friends and joined the religion. We have Chandan Mitra (Owner of daily Pioneer) decided to join Rajya Sabha on BJPâs support. Anil Ambani joined Rajya Sabha on Congress support and Jaya Bachchan went to Rajya Sabha on Samajwadi Partyâs support. I am not against intellectual people joining Rajya Sabha but it really hurts when you see these intellectuals speaking the supporting partyâs language (additional qualification of âno self respectâ). Probably, I wonât be able to do that.
The funny thing is that unlike Hindu Religion, people of âPoliticsâ religion are very supportive of conversion-so if somebody wants to leave the religion, people let them go very happily. Even they help the person settling down after leaving the religion by dropping their pending court cases, stopping mudslinging and giving them all the respect they donât even deserve. There are few exceptions to this rule. Mrs Sonia Gandhi or Mr Jyoti Basu and some others are like Shankaracharyas of the religion who cannot leave on their own wish as the religion will be orphaned in case they leave.
India is a secular country but this religion of politics is always ahead and takes priority over others. People of other religion like Uphaar Cinema fire victims, Jessicaâs relatives, Nitish Kataraâs parents, Mattuâs parents, 1993 Bomb Blast victims and many more wait for justice for decades but when there is an attack on politicians (e.g. attack on parliament), in retaliation, we start gathering our troops to the border and justice also happens very quickly by ordering death penalty for the culprits.
Like other religions, this religion also has itâs festival. They celebrate at time of election , riots, farmers committing suicide, land ceiling in Delhi, spread of epidemic such as dengue etc. are the festivals some of people in this religions celebrate. They get a chance to feast and get some brownie points by making a hill out of mole for to get some political mileage.
Do you really want to convert and join the religion? Perhaps âa big NOâ and so do I. All these qualification are similar to a âNo entryâ board for me. I probably want to follow a different path to change the society. It may be my writings (âpen is mightier than swordâ still applies) or my other actions. There are lot of other means to make this world more beautiful. Perhaps, 100 years from now, some actions inside or outside this religion will make some of the basic qualifications liberal and more sincere people join the politics. You can call me a âCowardâ until then.
Mera Bharat Mahaan!!!
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Came across this article by Mera Bharat Mahan who is an IT prof at Clifornia, USA(no more details could be traced):Politics: A religion with -No entry- board
My maternal grandfather was a freedom fighter, spent most of his early life in jails and after independence of India, he joined politics, ran for an election and was a legislature from a small constituency in Bihar. Sticking to his ideals, he didnât even think of bringing his children to politics and my mother or my uncle and the coming generation ended up remaining as ordinary people. There were many others whose children never joined politics in their life e.g. Dr Rajendra Prasad the first president of India.
Some others did it differently. The biggest role model was our first prime minister Nehru whose next three generations have been in power and it would go even further. It ended up creating a big conglomerate of rulers for whom, politics become like a family business which they keep passing on to the next generations. People like Scindias, Pilots, Deoras, Thakres, Dixits, Yadavs (Mulyam Singh), Abdullahs, Sayeds etc. are some of the examples from a long list.
Now there is a list of opportunists such as Mayawati, VP Singh, Mulayam, Lalu Yadav, Advani, Vajpayee who used peopleâs emotions and sensitive issues to quickly come to the power and add to the conglomerate.
More people like journalists, industrialists and even criminals joined them because the mainstream guys wanted to remain in the power with help of money, publicity or muscle power they needed to remain in the power.
All this has created a big âreligionâ of politicians. This religion prohibits anybody from joining unless they fulfill five basic criteria for joining politics. These criteria are:
You quit any religion you already follow or the cast you are in. You can keep the name though and your old religion on papers as they might be needed. By doing this, you enhance your qualifications to create rift between other religions.
You should be a close friend or relative of a politician. Closest the relation, quickest will be this religion in accepting you.
You should have lot of money to invest in different âpolitical venturesâ i.e. fund some campaign, pay to big guys for getting a seat in Rajya Sabha or just become famous somehow!
You should be a criminal with big muscle power and be able to âfight for the religionâ which means killing people who speak right against wrong or wrong against wrong.
Make sure that anybody not fulfilling any of the above four do not convert to this religion. It might involve killing the guy, involving him in a false case or just mudslinging on him. You might need to associate with your biggest enemy to achieve this.
Additional to that, there are some âNice to haveâ qualifications. Things such as âNo self respectâ, âAbility to deny your own statementsâ, âChanging allegianceâ, âMudslingingâ, âSycophancyâ etc. etc.
Now I look at myself and find myself totally scared. I probably do not have any of these qualifications and the fifth basic qualification scares me even more. I am probably better off being part of my own religion.
I have seen others suffered because they didnât check the qualifications completely before they decided to join politics. Remember, my favorite Big B who came to politics with a big bang. He had some of the qualification but he failed on the additional qualifications and the poor guy had to leave the religion. There are other examples such as Rajeev Gandhiâs best friend Arun Singh who recently disclosed his bitter experience with his best friend. Recently, a UP legislature Krishnanad Rai who challenged another legislature with basic qualification number four, was killed.
At the other side, we have Rajeev Shukla, a Congress MP who used to interview politicians on Zee TV, made some good friends and joined the religion. We have Chandan Mitra (Owner of daily Pioneer) decided to join Rajya Sabha on BJPâs support. Anil Ambani joined Rajya Sabha on Congress support and Jaya Bachchan went to Rajya Sabha on Samajwadi Partyâs support. I am not against intellectual people joining Rajya Sabha but it really hurts when you see these intellectuals speaking the supporting partyâs language (additional qualification of âno self respectâ). Probably, I wonât be able to do that.
The funny thing is that unlike Hindu Religion, people of âPoliticsâ religion are very supportive of conversion-so if somebody wants to leave the religion, people let them go very happily. Even they help the person settling down after leaving the religion by dropping their pending court cases, stopping mudslinging and giving them all the respect they donât even deserve. There are few exceptions to this rule. Mrs Sonia Gandhi or Mr Jyoti Basu and some others are like Shankaracharyas of the religion who cannot leave on their own wish as the religion will be orphaned in case they leave.
India is a secular country but this religion of politics is always ahead and takes priority over others. People of other religion like Uphaar Cinema fire victims, Jessicaâs relatives, Nitish Kataraâs parents, Mattuâs parents, 1993 Bomb Blast victims and many more wait for justice for decades but when there is an attack on politicians (e.g. attack on parliament), in retaliation, we start gathering our troops to the border and justice also happens very quickly by ordering death penalty for the culprits.
Like other religions, this religion also has itâs festival. They celebrate at time of election , riots, farmers committing suicide, land ceiling in Delhi, spread of epidemic such as dengue etc. are the festivals some of people in this religions celebrate. They get a chance to feast and get some brownie points by making a hill out of mole for to get some political mileage.
Do you really want to convert and join the religion? Perhaps âa big NOâ and so do I. All these qualification are similar to a âNo entryâ board for me. I probably want to follow a different path to change the society. It may be my writings (âpen is mightier than swordâ still applies) or my other actions. There are lot of other means to make this world more beautiful. Perhaps, 100 years from now, some actions inside or outside this religion will make some of the basic qualifications liberal and more sincere people join the politics. You can call me a âCowardâ until then.
Mera Bharat Mahaan!!!