We or Politicians?

Starting this blog with the dictionary meaning of politics- The art or science of government or governing, especially the governing of a political entity, such as a nation, and the administration and control of its internal and external affairs. But, the foremost thing that comes to my mind, hearing politics is corruption, forgery, deception and many more things correlated to this. The first time I actually got confronted by politics term was during the death of Rajiv Gandhi. But the actual instance, I started to think about politics was only when the scam occurred involving the then PM Narsimha Rao. Due to this, the actual thought process concerning politics started in me on an appalling note. In near future there was no other imperative incident that may grip my imagination. But after some years, once again there was flashy news on TV channels about a scam (Chaara Ghotala) involving Bihar CM Laloo Prasad Yadav. This incident facilitated to cultivate the mindset in me that politics is all about corrupt people and their corruption. After this incident I started regularly updating myself with current affairs. At that time, in news, most of the times politicians were associated with corrupt charges against them, and these things started making me sense that politicians are born to be corrupt, and they have no moral or ethical values. I think most of us believe the same. Most of us think politics is a dirty game of our politicians to accomplish their self-centered goals.

Above chronological events made me initially think that corruptions and politics are only associated with government and uneducated politicians. But the first time this thought’s root got shaken was when I witnessed how 3 friends, who used to be together each day for three years, were opponents for obtaining the General Secretary post in our Engg College. They were playing deceptive games against each other, to get hold of the votes of our class. I was astonished and did not know how to respond at these unusual events. I had the feeling that people who were illiterate, ignorant and having other negative traits only qualified for these types of deceptive games. But the real moment experience showed me the truth, when something is on stake, and more number of people competing for a particular thing, then feeling of deception, forgery, selfishness, achievement, egoism, hatred in their different forms gets developed in some competing members.

After the above-mentioned experience, there were lots of opportunities to notice number of proceedings, confirming my belief as mentioned above. Now I see how a small thing, if seen from a broader perspective, makes so many people go crazy to achieve it. In life things which carry very negligible significance become an immense thing to achieve at a particular point in life. Let’s take an example of captainship in our national team, there are number of examples that have come up in news in past years that reflects the controversies revolving around this position. The genuine thing I want to bring out by this blog is the disparity in the politics played by politicians and by people like us. First, let us take the politicians of our country. Most of these come from uneducated and miserable financial circumstances. Most of them don’t have graduation under their belt. Somehow these people get into politics and earn some valuable position. After getting this position they are exposed to enormous amount of money at their disposal. Since, they have never seen this much money, so they don’t know how to handle this much money. Also, this is a huge opportunity for them to make their bank balance strong. Most of us want to make money in life, so they also want the same. They find this the best way to make money. This results in corruption. Now let us take our example, we in life get number of opportunities to grow in life and make money and other things such as prestige. But some people for negligible things in life get into deceiving games. They think that getting these things in life will make their life pleasurable. But this behavior once indulged becomes the part of their life and never separates from them. In long run one finds that he hasn’t got in life what he sought for.

Finally I want to mention in politics there are lots of thing on stake, such as prestige, huge money, huge follower base, etc. They can even become immortal by virtue of their actions. But in our case there is no point in life where even slightest fraction of above mentioned things are involved. Then also there are people among us who get involved in politics to get their job done. We say we are literate citizen and never compare ourselves with politicians who are unethical, illiterate, etc. So, who are the bigger politicians, we or our actual politicians?