By D.N.Singh
Bhubaneswar Lok sabha member of parliament Aparajita Sarangi, who today claims to create an equal society which has been suffering the class ridden mind set for long, is not ready to give up after entering politics even.
While going for the walk-the-talk she should be well aware of the reality that we are in a system where elite thriving is unavoidable now.
It is not difficult to imagine the dichotomy Sarangi confronts today. After leaving her career as an IAS, she chose politics as a means to liberate the capital city from the clutches of inequality as anywhere else.
As a politician, even before she stepped into the electoral arena, she had claimed, in a way, that, somewhere and somehow she was in a state of suffocation there during her under Naveen Patnaik..
And it was the inspiration she derived from the ideals and persona of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which remained the main reason for her to embrace politics as a career.
During her pre-election days she had, in fact, gone hammer and tongue at Naveen Patnaik, the chief minister of Odisha, under whom she had served for few years as an IAS, describing him as a leader who never could inspire her in those years. Neither she could find any virtue in him as a leader nor any substance as a political administrator.
That was the foundation on which she tried to build her political road map and won the Lok sabha election. Reports say that she wants to make a case study of Bhubaneswar in her agenda to ensure social justice to all living here.
Before she starts her innings she met the chief minister of Odisha to build a conducive climate for a mutual good and she told the media later that, it was very ‘constructive meeting with the CM ‘.
That is the most fascinating peculiarity of politics. Sarangi who failed to get inspired by Naveen Patnaik in her service period as an IAS in more than a decade, has to genuflect before him for a mutual ground. What a fabulous contradiction that one has to weather himself or herself to ease the odds ahead.
Sarangi had, however, been able to make a space for her in Odisha’s administrative set up and it was not minus the goodwill of the chief minister. She was given a free reign in all the departments she had headed and hogged the limelight as an able administrator, albeit not an outstanding one.
After coming into politics, from the word go, number of times Aparajita directed her polemics at Naveen Patnaik and in all likelihood, that would not have gone well for the top leadership of Bharatiya Janata Party and in hind sight they must have thought of a course correction asking Sarangi to meet the chief minister . Else, it is difficult to think that, she, on herself, decided to meet Naveen Patnaik without a nod from Delhi.
