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Politicians need vision not merely a capacity to conspire
by Kris iyer on May 16, 2008 11:33 AM

Politics in advanced democracies throws up individuals with some real, genuine, proven skills in terms of knowledge of the country, knowledge of the actual problems faced by ordinary people and genuine and sincere desire to help improve the condition of the "Aam Adhmi". By being sincere and skilled, they hope to win elections. NOT SO IN INDIA.
Persons like Arjun Singh know ONLY HOW TO CONSPIRE, how to manipulate. They have not proved any other SKILLS. They are quite clearly interested in DIVIDE AND RULE. They are ever ready to "sup with the devil" "if they can get to sit in THE KURSI."
The tragedy is that in every Indian entity, you will find one or two Arjun Singhs. Even in many NGOs. After 60 years of independence, the model of a "clever" Indian is one who gets ahed only through conspiracies, loves illicit wealth, illicit sex and illicit use of public power. Our Public must vote for political parties with some sincerety and nationalism.
If Arjun Singh "nuances" statements, we have a southindian politician, KarunaNidhi, who also does the same. No one is ever sure what KarunaNidhi's policy is on anything. He too creates controversies merely to survive in politics. The two politicians, identical in their outlook are, naturally, good friends also. Both have already damaged India a lot.

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