DEMOCRACY AND DELHI ELECTION RESULTS

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On a holiday to Pattaya in Thailand on a deep sea dive I ventured to catch fish. Touching the ground I struggled to stand as waves from many directions hit me hard and the oxygen mask too getting loosened needing attention. Ultimately sea water entered my mouth and I rushed out forgetting the fishing. Politician in power is similarly placed with pulls from many directions jostling and support systems not helping in time yet there is a compulsion to achieve goal of development with no option to back out.

A police head can be strict, uncompromising, stern and even authoritarian and demand obedience. People would appreciate it as they are at home with a dominating personality as policeman.  A politician needs to compromise, negotiate, cooperate, consult, bargain, hold parleys and ultimately establish his authority thro widely acceptable decision. Even a dominating politician dominates after the above process. If people are honest, (ha ha ha !!!!!)  a police Head has least work, but a politician has development as a constant agenda  and has the burden of distributing the limited resources to unlimited demands.

Even ardent supporters of politicians in power have their own aspirations and the cadre profile is varied based on culture, ethnicity, background and also strata of society. A politician per force has to appear to be appreciating the diversity and also understand the nuances of culture and at times participate in them as if feeling at home. Most politicians play such roles professionally which a police politician would find it hard to digest leave alone practicing.

Deception may be viewed as fraud, but a behavioral deception is the compulsion of any ruler. The acts of a government even with welfare oriented goals are also often open for criticism and hence it keeps in wraps many targets till the right time comes for implementation.  Statement whether to be made or how to be made are also part of the functional strategy of the government. No government survives without strategy and obvious foe of it is openness. "The party made me CM candidate without taking any money" and "If I lose election I will go back to teaching" are statements very un-ruler like. The politicians many of whom are reputed lawyers do go back to their legal profession but do not profess so in public.

People of all hues come to politics. Meek, weak, bully, turncoat, cheat, swindler, convict and the collectively immoral are in politics also with some gentlemen and good Samaritans but all needing limelight if not also money. Their behavioral pattern may be seen as uncouth and uncivil at times yet a political leader needs to interact with them on their wave length. A police head too handles such people but the goal is limited to an issue and not like a politician who needs them if not as supporters at least as neutrals not opposing him for the ruler to run the show as a government.

A police head enforces law and criminal justice system and in the process rarely needs to take people in to confidence. But a political leader doing right or wrong always needs to take people in his party in to confidence and smother ruffled feelings constantly. Confrontation and rule of authority and law are the last resorts of a politician and in the meantime his mindset is ruled by patience, tolerance, endurance and fortitude. A police head has almost opposite mindset with authority sticking out first and compromise seen as a weakened situation.

These were my thoughts as I viewed BJP losing the Delhi election. Then the question arises as to how Arvind Kejriwal won given his mindset?

Perhaps that is democracy.

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