“Confrontational Politics”
Mr. Pranab Kumar Pandey has brought out some core issues in his article “Confrontational politics” published on 22nd July 2009 in The Daily Star. I would like to focus on the last sentence of the article i.e. “Political parties would do well to respect the verdict of the voters”.
Commitment creates accountability and accountability creates obligation to go by the commitment. As far as voters' right is concerned, a political leader should be obligated to comply with his/her commitments. Deviation from the commitment or non-fulfilment of commitment is a fraud/deceit to the voters. In our judicial system, every fraud/deceit is a punishable crime. If no one is above the law, why political leaders (?) would not be punished for fraudulent/deceitful activities?
In our political system, unfortunately, we have become habituated to the culture that political leaders would hold out sweet promises to the voters through realistic/unrealistic commitments; political leaders would motivate voters by any means; voters would cast their votes in favour of those leaders; voters would bring out processions to celebrate the victory. In most cases leaders would lay down the foundation of new sweet dreams for self development; leaders would remain awfully busy with their own agenda and voters would look for kindness, sympathy of the leaders and so on.
To bring positive changes in our political system, we must know about our rights, we must assess commitments of leaders (realistically achievable or not), we must review the past performance cautiously, we must have the courage to support the interest of the nation.
Regarding the caption of the picture “You point finger at others, others point fingers at you”, I would say “when you point one finger at others to blame, you are blaming yourself by three fingers at the same time” (look at the shape of the hand in the picture), this is also true in reality.
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