Why Politics is a bad word?

I can’t get over this ad on NDTV where Laloo cribs in one of the footages “Saala … Is mein bahoth Politicsh hei”

Now, when someone like an “acclaimed” politician like Laloo is weary about Politics, it surely must be a bad word.

Any act of conspiracy or impropriety is promptly termed as politics. If it is in India Cricket “There is so much politics in the Cricket System”. If it is an undue promotion, then it is ‘office politics’.

I fail to understand why we use the word whenever we sense foul play. It is a real perception problem, if people are not able differentiate between politics and politicians. Again it would be wrong to term a goonda as a politician just because some of them are.

I developed this sudden curiosity of visiting the parliament website to see whether the temple of Democracy is a tech savvy institution as well. Suprisingly, it was. It was updated with the Business till date, separate sections allotted for the PMO, President’s office, and inviting the people to ask questions in certain sections.

Each MP’s CV was also made available. What I did find was that most of them have been leaders born out of some revolution, awakening, or people born to such leaders, apart from the customary Film personalities, who are the Item numbers in the otherwise boring demography in the Parliament.

So where I am coming from is that, these people had the right intentions en route their ascendancy to the chair, but somewhere after that, they started experiencing the comforts of being in power, and slowly the rose seems more evident than the thorn. So these guys do these cheeky things to stay in power at any ‘cost’.

I liked Spiderman for the concept “ With great power comes great responsibility”. Wish our leaders get this message through.

Another problem is the question of how long should one get hooked on to an ideology. Again Let us take for example my Timepass No.1 Politician Sh Lalooji.
He certainly came up the hard way fighting for the rights of the impoverished in the state of Bihar. He was really a widely accepted leader because he brought self respect to the less privileged.

Let us hypothetically think that Laloo is still an upright politician and that scams and scandals are not necessary for him to win his daily bread. Would it still make sense for him to just talk about self respect when times have changed and people are more worried about progress than mirage like self respect and deceiving dignity.

My take is that politicians should evolve with the times, and the competition should be, who would serve the nations interests best, rather than who will serve which section of the society. If he thinks that the ideology with which he came to politics is served, or has no further hopes of achieving it, he should call it quits, and get back to his normal 9-5 life.

The politicos are more on the lookout for USPs (read outdated ideologies) rather than building competencies to tackle the broader level issues better.

My opinion is that we should do whatever little possible to encourage the current generation and the generations to come to take to politics as a career option rather than watching the ‘fun” from the sidelines. That is when the word will be used better than be abused.

Business was a middleclass taboo till some time back before one man from a modest beginning took the world by storm, and encouraged entrepreneurship as a way of life . Let us look forward to a decade where politics also disappears from the taboo list of the Indian Household, not just the middleclass.

I know that I am getting repetitive on this topic, but this is my little step forward in what I think is the right direction towards my ascendancy to the CHAIR.