It was either anger or frustration but the Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pitambar Acharya has walked into a zone of political unease by resorting to an avoidable defensive ferocity mode by allegedly abusing the law keepers on duty. Acharya is pitted against the chief minister Naveen Patnaik from the Hinjili Assembly seat and may be the tag of a self-acclaimed giant killer has resulted in such an obtrusive show of anger to demean officials on duty. It is different that an FIR has been filed in a police station under 506, 186 and 294 of the IPC against the BJP leader accused of misconduct shown to people in duty.
Going by the video and listening to the audio of Acharya, it is clear that the BJP leader could not digest the fact that he should be subjected to any routine check by officials assigned to do the job for security reasons. That, perhaps, was the bone of contention, which irked the BJP leader in a pure case of identity crisis. Maybe. If one listens to the tenor of the language chosen by Acharya to embarrass the officers on duty, it all smacked of sheer arrogance.
Instead of abiding the law, a good lawyer chose to not only flout it but took a recourse to offend officials on duty by giving out a chronology of his entire background and calling himself a representative of a national party taking on chief minister Patnaik, who is representing a mere “regional party”, in Hinjili .
Glossing the obvious, Acharya was found flaunting his position as a big lawyer, which was in fact an unwanted insertion on that occasion. It could have been sufficed to say that he is so and so and going to so and so place. But, instead, the latter took shelter in self-eulogy even describing himself as a ‘ fire’ not to be played with. Which clearly point at a kind adolescent fancy or poverty of self-restrain that does not behove his seniority.
