In democracy we will be under the impression that politicians care what people care ,to appear that they actually care about people.
But, there are few incidents, where politicians care what they "think" people care, to become famous or for personal gains. I produce few cases, where citizens were mostly nonchalant I.e no mass movement producing new leaders, but politicians started being melodramatic.
Case 1 : FDI in retail
I see no dharna or rastaroko from kirana & general store associations. None of them threatened or for that matter opposed that policy except for opposition parties. All most all major columnists of popular news papers welcomed that move and there is not even a small incident where the newspapers printed those columns got burnt. However, political parties made fuss about it.
Case 2 : Telengana issue
The demand to have a separate Telangana state is supported by mass movement. People burnt themselves in emotion, people made most of the bandhs successful all over Telangana regarding the issue. I see no mass support like that for United Andhra movement. Its just politicians talking in front of TV cameras. If people of rest of the Andhra Pradesh are being nonchalant for the last 6 years or so, don't understand what the politicians get over excited about United Andhra movement.
Case 3 : corruption
This is one case where people expressed anger and opposition actually harassed the government on it.
No comments:
Post a Comment