WANTED- POLITICAL IDOLS IN INDIA

Writerspoint wishes all it's readers in India, a very happy Republic Day.
As we celebrate our 64th Republic Day we marvel at how farsighted our constitution makers were!
The brilliant political leaders made our constitution rigid enough to maintain its basic structures and philosophy of the country and at the same time flexible enough to incorporate changes that time demanded. Even after 64 years, we awe at the makers of the Indian constitution for drafting the longest written constitution of any sovereign country in the world so successfully!

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Like everything around us, politics has also changed and continues to change rapidly. Today, when we look at politics, we cannot help but associate it with corruption and other mal-practises and eventually end up calling it 'dirty politics'. We no longer have political idols or political leaders, all that politics offer us today is ' politicians'. The youth today idolises actors and sportsmen, singers and dancers. Don't blame them, they do not have much choice because India has lost the recipe to create idols in the field of politics. 

Should we seek inspiration from Abhijit Mukherjee? Yes, son of our Honourable President who claimed that the women participating in the protests for Nirbhaya were “pretty women who were dented and painted”.

He said students who go to protest there think it is fashionable to hold candles and protest.

“This is almost like the Pink Revolution. These women who are protesting have no contact with ground reality. These pretty women, dented and painted, who come for protests are not students. I have seen them speak on television, usually women of this age are not students,” Our politicians make such comments on critical issues like gang rape.

Can politicians like him who do nothing but make obnoxious comments and objectify women become idols for our generation ? 

If not him, how about Laxman Savadi and CC Patil? The Karnataka state ministers were caught watching porn in the State Assembly. Now, they are perfect political idols, aren't they ? 

Ironically CC Patil was the minister for women and child development! This is what he had to say- "The truth is like this... The mobile phone had a video of a rape incident. The victim is murdered by the rapists. Subsequently, the people chase the rapists and catch them. Later, the government awards death sentence to the accused. Patil and myself were sympathising with the victim."

 They are the representatives who are elected by the people with the hope that giving them position of such great powers will change the condition of our country. But unfortunately, for them State Assembly is not a place to discuss issues of social welfare, but a place to watch porn! We can certainly not expect youth to seek inspiration from ministers like them! 

We might be stupid enough to elect you, but we are not stupid enough to believe what you say, irrespective of what we see! 

How about Mayawati ? This Indian politician who claims to be working for the downtrodden and backward classes of our country chose to spend 685 crore on a mere park with statues of herself and stone carved elephants! Dear miss Mayawati, had you used all that money for setting up schools for children of backward classes, you would have done so much good. Unfortunately politicians of our country do not know how to work towards something even if they have a good cause to work for. So I don't blame my friends who idolise Salman Khan for his N.G.O Being Human.

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While the list of politicians like them is very very long, only two names pop up in my mind when I think of Political Idols of 21st Century in India.

 AUNG YANG SU KI 

"It is true that I have lived abroad. It is also true that I am married to a foreigner. These facts have never interfered and will never interfere with or lessen my love and devotion for my country by any measure or degree."

A.P.J ABDUL KALAM

"To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal"
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Their words are enough to inspire us, their actions make us look up to them. What they have done for us and our country is something we cannot pay back. What we can do is respect them and their ideas! 

It must be a lonely path, with every single day a challenge. To stand up for your rights without flinching, to face humiliation and violence with courage, without retaliating violently - Oh no, not everybody can do that...

But they have done it for India and for us! We need more like them.

Tell us about the political leaders of India you idolise. We need more like them !