Sunday, December 07, 2008

Why we don't join politics ..

We have been seeing a lot of well-justified outrage against politicians these days. They have proven themselves less-competent than some of the lowest performing employees of public/private sectors. People want to replace them, but then replace with what? Another ‘lesser‘ less competent politician or some one who is slightly better ? There are not very exciting options here. And why? In India, who joins politics? ‘Most of them’ are left over guys who couldn’t do well in studies like their mates in becoming MBA/Techie or other professional or who gets it in VIRASAT. Yes , quite a lot with hard life and dedication as well , but what percentage ? Probably less than 1 %. India delivers best engineers, managers to the world but not best politicians, why ? When I started thinking about it , I thought of starting from people around me (who are well off in their fields) and asked them why they didn’t join politics.
1. To start with they never never considered politics as a profession or career path.
2. No well wisher/teacher/elder person asked them to go into it.
3. we saw and developed the impression that politics is not for elite-educated people and certainly not for youth. Its either for dirty people or for old generation.
4. Most of the Politicians are gundas/mawalis (goons/thugs).We can't deal with/against them.

Isn’t it irony that politics is perhaps the easiest job one can get into. You need no qualifications, you need no decent background. You just need to start with publicity ( good or bad doesn’t matter … or wait … bad one would help more perhaps).
You are ex-criminal and wanna have change, join politics.
You are corrupt and have taken bribes, still you can be CM and minister.
You lost elections , don't worry, you can still be Minister in central govt as Rajya sabha Member.

No surprise, this has led us to the present situation when country and its security are handled by some of the worst eligible people.


Then what we should so? Simply join the politics?
If I join politics today, most probably I would be no-where in few years unless I get support for people who are ‘like me’ which are already very rare in politics. Probably, to start with , it should be started with political reforms. We need to work to make politics as a ‘career’ or rather ‘profession’. People need to get feeling that they have to have certain qualities to get into it, be it educational or social ones. Strict rules should be enforced to keep anti-social elements out of politics. Politicians should be given high salaries and perks at the same time corruption for them should be trialed against a dedicated stringent law ( like POTA for terrorism ). This would help in creating clean system to right people to stay on. Highlight good work by politicians to increase their visibility and to improve public attitude towards politicians.
One big questions , above and more changes, who’ll do that ?
I think , this is the direction ( one of the directions ) we should channelize our current zeal and anger into, Media, celebrities and Social Groups should drive this for execution. At present I am not able to think of an concrete plan, do you have one for this ?

2 Comments:

Blogger Kim said...

Well, i saw ur blog today for the first time, most of them elucidating 'bot the social events...and read 2,3,4 in stretch....sont have much to comment regarding the content of it as never mulled on them seriously...but ur blogs did steal my reading mania and i enjoyed ur posts... :)))

2:29 AM, December 10, 2008  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A great message in a simple way! Someone has to initiate, but again 'someone'.
Excellent writing!!!

10:57 AM, December 12, 2008  

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