Step 1: Question him.
Step 2: File charges against him.
Step 3: Ensure a fair and speedy trial.
Step 4: Convict him.
It’s a Herculean task to just go anywhere near Step. 1.
Thereafter, there’s many as slip between each and every step.
Not to mention the thousands of hours of TV coverage and millions of words written on the issue that all go into a Black Hole…
© Sunil Rajguru
…as proud as Maya and her statues
…as spoilt as Mamata and her tantrums
…as unfulfilled as Advani and his dreams
…as stale as the Left and its government in Bengal
…as high-profile as Raj Thackeray and his miniscule achievements
…as low-key as Manmohan and his style of governance
…as destructive as Laloo and his Bihar rule
…as murky as cricket and its political patrons
…as huge as a politician’s black wealth
…as hopeless an Indian leader’s vision
…as blind as an Indian voter’s vote
…as brazen as a corrupt politician’s defence
…as ineffective as an Indian government scheme
…as opportunistic as Pawar and his tie-ups
…as two-faced as Vajpayee and his political life
…as fleeting as Deve Gowda’s prime ministerial stint
…as anonymous as Gujral’s prime ministerial stint
…as diplomatic as Amar Singh and his network
…as bankrupt as an Indian leader’s idea bank
…as fiery as a communal speech
…as enigmatic as Sonia and her mind
…as lasting as the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty
This Version By Sunil Rajguru
1000 corrupt politicians sitting on the wall,
1000 corrupt politicians sitting on the wall,
And if one corrupt politician should accidentally fall,
There’ll be 1001 corrupt politician sitting on the wall.
1001 corrupt politicians sitting on the wall,
1001 corrupt politicians sitting on the wall,
And if one corrupt politician should accidentally fall,
There’ll be 1002 corrupt politician sitting on the wall.
1002 corrupt politicians sitting on the wall,
1002 corrupt politicians sitting on the wall,
And if one corrupt politician should accidentally fall,
There’ll be 1003 corrupt politician sitting on the wall…
Notes:
1. For every corrupt politician who is exposed or caught in India, two take his place thereafter.
2. India has been playing this game since 1947.
3. If you pay good salaries, you may or may not get corrupt politicians.
If you pay abysmally low salaries, you will definitely get near 100% corruption.
Our founding fathers chose the second option.
Post-1991, the private sector is competing with the world, while the average Indian politician compares nowhere with his Western counterpart.
4. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
If you pay peanuts to politicians, then you get a monkey political system where the common man ends up being the real monkey.
This Version By Sunil Rajguru
We all know that all our politicians are worth hundreds of crores.
Yet when they flaunt a few crores, we get rattled.
We all know that all our politicians are corrupt, which is a crime, hence they are all criminals.
But only the chargesheeted ones upset us.
We all frown on nepotism in every walk of life.
Yet one family has been ruling this country for more than half of its Independent existence and we know and accept that another sonrise is due.
If we meet 90% of our work targets, then we feel really bad.
But if politicians even meet 10% of their targets, we get very happy.
© Sunil Rajguru