Samikhsya Bureau
The dividing line between virtue and the evil is so thin that one can break it anytime . But the dividing line between loyalty and rebellion in politics is much more thinner. Even before an inkling of a dejection in the build up, any dam leader’s allegiance with a political party quickly dissolve into repugnance .
It is a kind of disease that becomes endemic during the election times resulting in a proliferation of rebels and turn-coats. Yesterday’s soothsayer to be a slayer in moments, baring all the teeth in a feat of defensive ferocity. .
The situation or mind-set of political leaders in general is same everywhere. Now-a-days it is a common sight at the Naveen Niwas where leaders can be seen coming in with a glee at the preening video cameras, and in many cases he or she can be seen coming out with a frown on the face as if today he discovered the devil living inside the party.
Member of parliament from Kandhamal, Pratyusha Rajeswari, who was picked up on a sympathy ground by the party post her husband’s sudden demise, in 2014, to become a MP, is today a rebel in the making. Denied of the ticket for the Lok sabha , a first timer and a political novice, Pratyusha has tried to give a sermon to the leader, it was learnt. Either she should be fielded for the Nayagarh assembly seat as a recourse or else she would contest as an independent.
Poorly conversed in Odia language Pratyusha in essence was a house wife in the erstwhile royal family of Nayagarh.
Lets take a look at the case of Balabhadra Majhi, former BJD leader and sitting MP from Nabrangpur , who after a comfortable five years of membership in the parliament got his sound track miffed with disillusions . When he got an entry into the BJP , Majhi was noticed, as if, someone after a suffocating stint of paganism suddenly found a respite.
Similar may be the case of Congress party’s Salepur legislator Prakash Behera , who took five years of political luxury to rescind his loyalty towards the Congress and discovered the multifariousness in the BJP that he had not been able to locate so far.
The MP from Sundergarh,, Kusum Tete was almost breathing fire once she came know that she was likely to be replaced by someone else as the candidate for the Kandhamal Lok sabha seat. Now many such flip-flops are to come out as nominations have started.
That is politics where nothing is impossible and there is nothing called scruple in our political culture. Mainly during poll times it becomes a dog-eat-dog situation where one has to be on guard for his or her moorings in politics. It is not that they suffer from any ignorance about such undulations in politics but simply they get consumed by ambitions.
