While violence during campaigning isn’t so much of a shock, what with respected and established journalists  being shot on the streets for something they have written to blowing people up,or mysterious disappearances  since 1947 and maybe aeons before that too.

So it begs the question…

What is the point of humiliating AAP chief now?

He has already dropped the (figurative) ball with his incorrect judgment with regards to what the general population expects of him (which is definitely not indefinite strikes).

So maybe, they think that humiliating him would drive him over the precipice?

Or maybe make him reveal the ugly side right before election?

Or the possibility of a 3rd option in our polling ballots has people scared and running, to prevent any further possibility of what might be the dawn of a new era, they decide to nip it in the bud-so to say.

One can feel the general election fever catching on, what with it being the most interesting thing on T.V. for the mango people now that Bigg Boss is not airing !

And there seems to be enough drama to catch and hold the attention of our social media b(i)ased- generation.

When we see the Americans having their non-violent and intellectually stimulating open debates between viable candidates who are calmly discussing their views and standpoints with certain issues making it reasonably easy for the American public to decide on whom they think have ideologies and manifestos aligned with their own ideologies,we cannot help but wonder why Indian politics has stayed the way it is…….

So are we close as nation to see the P.M. candidates  hash it out on national television?

Certainly, it is one of the things I as a citizen would appreciate a great deal.

No amount of bribing or other such illegal activities would have room to flourish if their plans for the nation are  clear and transparent to us, and all the dirty politics will seem churlish (as it does to me now),because  you would think a civilization/society like ours would be ,more evolved or at least evolved enough for open confrontation of this sort.

We’ve all watched Rahul Gandhi on Times Now, and it did provide a sense of where he was coming from as a politician, whether he was saying what he thought he wanted us to hear or otherwise.

The clarity that this one-on-one interview has brought has only magnified the need for the P.M. candidates to clearly establish the difference in their views and bring to point the issues that are very essential for a country like ours to discuss,out  in the open from corporal punishment for the rapists,dowry and honour killings to maybe even article 377.

I can only hope that this change will come in the near future, for it would be cathartic for a nation whose politics is rife with dealings on the side, and the opaqueness ,brittleness and infuriating narrow mindedness  of a rusted pipeline more like a blocked artery of a high cholesterol patient limiting all prospects of further growth and progress.(not to mention the beer belly that seems striking similar and weirdly epidemic among our over-fed politicians 😉 )

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