the ubiquitous chair - continued

The rocking chairs

For politicians, the Chairs keep rocking every time elections are announced. The causes of rocking keeps changing from time to time, some times it is ‘onions’, some other time it is ‘farmers suicide’, India shining, and so on but never on mundane things like better education, better infrastructure, better quality of life, control of corruption, etc. Heavier subjects like ‘mandal, ‘masjid’, minorities, etc. bring in handful dividends in the form of number of seats won in elections. Once elections are over and a government is put in place, every politician tries to rock every other politician’s chair, some times same-side goal. To keep their chairs in tact, the phrases such as ‘law will take its own course’ and when the legal luminaries in the courts find fault with any government functioning or any outwitting of law of the land, they conveniently express ‘regret’ ‘unfortunate’ and so on but never really regret. Presidential references too some times pushed down his throat in the name of collective wisdom – again to keep their Chairs in tact.

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