The disillusioned Politicos!

The Disillusioned Politics!

As an average citizen I do not have much predisposition in politics or political disputes cum deliberations. Nonetheless, during my growing periods, especially in the pre-independence era, when our elders in the family & their friends used to deliberate, sometimes hotly on the conflicting ideologies’ of tall leaders of the then Indian National Congress Party, such as Gandhiji’s nonviolence policy as compared to Nataji Shubhas Chandra Bose’s clarion call, after the formation of INA, “You give me blood, I will give you independence”!                                                                                        
The most hotly debated topic used to be almost on  our every elders’ leaps, during those days when the then Muslim League Leader, Mr Jinnah’s clarion call for creation of a separate Muslim majority nation, naming it “Pakistan”, curving out of the undivided India! Despite Gandhiji’s concerted efforts to circumvent the partition of India but it failed finally and the country was divided into two nations Pakistan & India!                    
Our generation were too young in those days, to understand fully the nuances cum complicities of then political issues & the Radio/Newspapers reporting and the follow-up passionately debated & deliberated, by our elders during those days.                                                                    

In retrospection, at my present evening years, when I revisit our bygone days I recall, even though sometimes emotionally charged during the political rivalries between both the ruling & their opponents parties as well the follow-up discourses & deliberations between them & the media reporting, certainly much civility & rationality used to be preserved as compared to the present days’ provocative and sometimes indecent gesticulations have become the order of the day!

The recent Gujarat election & the following class divisive aggravations, engineered by some anti- government factions, in expressing their rights which resulted into sudden spurts of  sporadic socio-political unrest cum loss of lives & proprieties  in the Maharashtra state. These political innuendos have become the testimonies of the current disillusioned  politics prevailing in our country! Thus, it reminds me of, a famous Antonio Grimace’s quote, ‘The challenge of modernity is to live without illusion and without becoming disillusioned!’