Samikhsya Bureau
Leaders from various political parties should borrow a leaf from the chief minister of Odisha who has maintained his intolerance towards anything wrong committed by his party leaders. There may be a few exceptions in between but, from day one he took over the reins in the state, several occasions have come leading to expulsions, chastisements, suspensions and removal of ministers from their posts.
But, nonetheless, there may be a few instances when certain compulsions did come on the way to discipline such leaders.
Anup Sai was a case in point and his crime, if proved, bandies out of all contours of human ethics to remain a person in the society, let alone a coveted position in politics.
However, at the national level such examples are very few or even negligible when criminality is punished by the leaderships.
Listing out such perpetrators of crime in other political parties are galore. Be it the national or even regional outfits, normally the instances are nudged to the doors of law or use of political coercion to delay convictions are no less.
The recent, even the on-going, brick-batting over the CAA or nationalism, the skies remained laced with perfidious utterances, crimes, anti-social activities and even seditious statements. The list is long and it would make a write up an arduous one for any reader.
Gandhi to ’goli maro’, now the politics has become a relay race and what matters is not how fast a leader runs but how fast you do against the rivals.
But for a nation of 130 cr the race is a zero-sum because if one or a party, wins, and that becomes a loss for a majority, then it ends at nowhere. Rather, it is an upwardly mobile anarchy that suits a very few.
If politics always leaves us all with a bad conscience and not an iota of guilt among the ones who perpetuate criminality in any of it’s forms, the laws have to be redefined.
But, that is something rare that the politicians would ever agree to bring in.
