Samikhsya Bureau
The most recent takeaway in the political circle in Odisha is the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s rabble rousing line ‘ Apana mane khushi ta, mun bi khushi ‘ . And this has given fodder to his opponents to cook a caricature of sort through parodies during public meetings. None other than Patnaik’s immediate close contender and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan who was found imitating the line and trying to criticise Patnaik , although it was an usual political takedown common in politics.
In a lighter note, it is an usual practice seen during musical concerts when certain singers point the mike at the audience for the finishing of a line from the lyrics.
Else, of late, in political gatherings it was merely clapping from the front rows was the common morale booster. However, during the campaigns in 2014 it was Narendra Modi who started the practice of getting answers from the people. Such as ‘ har ghar mein bijli hona chahiye, bolo, hona chahiye ki nahi ? ‘ (in each house hold there should be electricity, tell me if it should be or not ) and the answer to such a question is so foregone, ‘ chahiye’ and then it goes on.
Then the infectious style was witnessed during the public meetings of BJP national president Amit Shah who use to parrot the boss.
But one does not know when did the Chief Minister of Odisha suddenly toed that style to discover the virtue of proximity with the people through sloganeering like ‘apana khushi ta , mun bi khushi’.
Anyway, those are new found tropes in politics through which politicians reflectively try to edge out the opponent unmindful of the reality that, people rarely get swayed by such stunts for long.
But such utterances either from Modi or Shah or Patnaik should not be a topic of any serious debate nor do the political opponents take it to a level of political fisticuffs.
