The only way to bring a sense in the drama
Almost all of last fortnight in media was consumed by the Jaswant Singh drama in Bharatiya Janata Party. Headlines were so full of his name that for the time, one could forget that there existed many grave problems in the country which required more attention than this matter. Scarcity of rains, issue of price rise...so many of them were left to be incorporated in the internal pages of print media or to fill the vacuum space in electronic media. Jaswant Singh, one may say confidently, is a lucky man. The man who has one of the least mass bases in the country always manages to hog the limelight which is very disproportionate to his standing. You might have observed that after the expulsion episode, little noise was made by the Jaswant supporters or voters, for to make noise there should have been some. There are none. So this lack of support seemed to have been filled up by the outcry in media over the justification of expulsion and apparent injustice meted out to the fallen leader. Continuous diatribe in which he is engaged since the day he has been prevented to attend BJP's meeting at Simla itself shows that Jaswant had a different agenda. He has clearly chosen right time to release his book to coincide with the meeting at Shimla. The entire sequence is portrayed as if the book on Jinnah was responsible for the expulsion of Jaswant from BJP. But he was relentlessly trying to bring it about since May 16 when the results of Lok Sabha elections were announced.
What amazes me is the kind of theatrics going on in BJP. Media is speculating and accumulating too much from the happenings in the beleaguered party. Every minor development in the party is being conveyed to public as if that is going to change the course of history for India. And public is least concerned with whether BJP is controlled by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or whether Advani is replaced by someone elese. Who cares if Murli Manohar Joshi assumed presidentship of the party? Was not the same Joshi a failure in 1991 elections when he was the president of the party? Can Arun Jaitley become leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha? Is he able to pull out at least 50 members in the house on his own? If not, how can it be a discussion point whether he is a frontrunner for the post?
It is only a lethargic mediamen who gallop for such stories because then they spared of working on the real stories. If BJP is serious on putting its house in order and helping the Indian democracy towards betterment, it should first levy en entertainment tax on the reporting of its happening. Because what we are seeing and reading is nothing short of the daily soap, going on without any sense. This is the only way to introduce some sense in the farce that is current politics.
Almost all of last fortnight in media was consumed by the Jaswant Singh drama in Bharatiya Janata Party. Headlines were so full of his name that for the time, one could forget that there existed many grave problems in the country which required more attention than this matter. Scarcity of rains, issue of price rise...so many of them were left to be incorporated in the internal pages of print media or to fill the vacuum space in electronic media. Jaswant Singh, one may say confidently, is a lucky man. The man who has one of the least mass bases in the country always manages to hog the limelight which is very disproportionate to his standing. You might have observed that after the expulsion episode, little noise was made by the Jaswant supporters or voters, for to make noise there should have been some. There are none. So this lack of support seemed to have been filled up by the outcry in media over the justification of expulsion and apparent injustice meted out to the fallen leader. Continuous diatribe in which he is engaged since the day he has been prevented to attend BJP's meeting at Simla itself shows that Jaswant had a different agenda. He has clearly chosen right time to release his book to coincide with the meeting at Shimla. The entire sequence is portrayed as if the book on Jinnah was responsible for the expulsion of Jaswant from BJP. But he was relentlessly trying to bring it about since May 16 when the results of Lok Sabha elections were announced.
What amazes me is the kind of theatrics going on in BJP. Media is speculating and accumulating too much from the happenings in the beleaguered party. Every minor development in the party is being conveyed to public as if that is going to change the course of history for India. And public is least concerned with whether BJP is controlled by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or whether Advani is replaced by someone elese. Who cares if Murli Manohar Joshi assumed presidentship of the party? Was not the same Joshi a failure in 1991 elections when he was the president of the party? Can Arun Jaitley become leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha? Is he able to pull out at least 50 members in the house on his own? If not, how can it be a discussion point whether he is a frontrunner for the post?
It is only a lethargic mediamen who gallop for such stories because then they spared of working on the real stories. If BJP is serious on putting its house in order and helping the Indian democracy towards betterment, it should first levy en entertainment tax on the reporting of its happening. Because what we are seeing and reading is nothing short of the daily soap, going on without any sense. This is the only way to introduce some sense in the farce that is current politics.
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