Election time Tamaasha

One report in a popular daily said Varun Gandhi topped the popularity list after his hate speech ahead of his senior colleagues in the party who dream and strive for the similar kinda fame.. no matter if its in the negative side..as long as it will be helping them for their political mileage. Varun is now a well known BJP leader nationwide and it shouldn't be forgotten that he has just debuted into his political career. For the Hindu fanatics he's a hero and he's getting pats from all sorts of Hindu fundamentalists groups. During all these ugly polity tactics in the name of caste and creed which is nothing but just sheer communalism I was expecting a just and a responsible statement from his mother Maneka Gandhi, also a BJP leader and a staunch animal rights activist.

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She's the one who raised voice against the ill treatment towards the animals and asked for an equality for those guileless creatures. Especially the circus guys and film makers who involved animals bore the brunt of hers and had to pay heavily legally and financially. She had an image that if you trouble an innocent animal there are fair chances that likewise you too would get troubled by Maneka Gandhi for that. I would jokingly ask my younger kins not to harass the pet or Maneka gandhi would put them behind similar kind of cages where animals are confined !
And after this Varun Gandhi episode she has strongly come out in his support blindly backing her son for whatever he said was correct and there was nothing he should be sorry of. She should surely support her son but not acknowledging the fact that those remarks were quite inflammatory for a minority community it was disappointing. He clearly violated the model code of conduct but they didn't, according to them..their excuse was it had been doctored. !!

Where's the morality of Maneka Gandhi now..? She has always asked for a fair treatment towards the animals but when it comes to humans' fair and equal treatment irrespective of their communities her integrity gets lost in the shuffle just because here her son is involved ?

Every election year we get to see moral standards touching new lows. The so-called leaders giving provocative and irresponsible remarks and surprisingly getting substantial benefits out of it. The Britons left long back but they sadly didn't take the "Divide & Rule" policy along with them.

Lowly politicians getting undeserved publicity by making believe their respective communities that its solely them who's safeguarding their interests by abusing and dishonoring the other communities and thus successfully able to grow seeds of communalism in their people without them having any inkling that its all politics.
It has been happening every now and then but we are just silent spectators.

At the end of it all the question is ..who is really responsible : The politicians or we the public ???