The recent happenings in the Karnataka politico ring has been nothing short of shamelessness, sham and an attitude of they-have-done-it-so-i-have-done-it-too.
B.S.Yeddiyurappa got his golden chance on a platter when the power greedy H.D.Devegowda & his low esteemed cohorts pulled the plug on the BJP-JD(S) combo government. BJP didn’t need to take any larger pains to convey their credibility & intent to the people of Karnataka. The mass voted massively in their favour and they managed to scrape through the required majority to form the first ever BJP government in South India.
Hopes were high, expectations were higher but what did Mr. Yeddy do instead. The greed of land seems to have ensnared all the high & mighty. Favour after favour made to his kith & kin was lapped by the media and they stripped his dealings clean in reams of paper print. And how did the God-fearing, rather God-visiting, CM react? His ice cool response to the opposition was that he would open the land cases from their ruling days and to the media he reacted with such audacious fervor that he done nothing wrong and his deeds were similar to what other had done before.
Ummm…interesting thought Mr.CM. There is not an iota of shame, guilt, felling of disgust in your bones. (...and Mr.CM, but we didn't elect you to be similar to others in past or to redo their misdeeds again. Much better was expected from you, but you've failed us miserably!) And how does our print happy media react? They decide it’s time for a change of guard and start throwing up potential probabilities for the musical chair. So how is the candidature decided? Age, experience, management skills, ability to garner support from all, pleasing exterior outlook whom the state people can depend on?
NO, none of that actually matters.
- Jagadish Shetter is a Lingayat and might be a good replacement because Karnataka has such a large Lingayat base.
- Sadananda Gowda is a Vokkaliga. They are large in numbers as well, so he might be a good choice as well.
- Suresh Kumar is a Brahmin. He has a clean image, might be a good candidate.
All excellent points indeed, except their capability skills aren’t questioned anywhere. Do I really care if the CM is from a dominant caste, do I care if he prays to the same God as I do, do I care if he observes the same rituals as I do or do I care a damn if he is an antagonist?
Meanwhile, Yeddiyurappa seems to have been born with more lives than a cat’s and has managed to retain his chair based on the point that the Lingayait community would get offended & would not support BJP in future. Wonderful lines of reasoning, indeed! Would a community be so glaring as to accept an incompetent to represent them? Will this social class ever cease to exist? Will there be an end to choosing the leadership based on this spectrum, ever! Will the cattle class ever get anything able?
Questions are aplenty, answers don’t seem anywhere near and neither beyond the horizon!
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