Politics in general has become a dirty world these days. Today the word “Politics” is synonymous with Corruption and Black Money. It’s a field filled with Lust for Power. A Politician is a Promise-Breaker; he never cares for the poor and underprivileged. He indulges in vote-bank politics, which is not the right way of dealing with people. He even cheats his own party by jumping to other parties which offer him nice seats with loads of money. He will do anything to get a party ticket and is prepared to avenge for his not getting any party ticket in any possible manner. The coalition politics sums up the real color of the today’s true politician. Wherein parties which join hands together to form the government, go against themselves fighting for some petty matters and then threaten the survival of the government as a whole. Such a person is not at all a politician. He is just an opportunist, a blackmailer. He is just a man who loves money and power. He cannot be a true representative of people at all.

An Ideal Politician

        There were days in the history of the country, wherein the politicians were literally considered as demi-gods. Go-back to the era of pre-independence era, and you will find many such demi-gods in the form of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, and many other people who have given their lives for the betterment of the society and for building the “India” we know today.

        I too think politicians should be like demi-gods for their respective regions. Only if a person is respected by the people they elect, will he become a true representative.

        How can a person contesting from a region claim that he is the true representative, if he indulges in vote-bank politics, uses rowdies for his campaign, and makes promises just before the elections only to break them after he wins the elections.

        An ideal politician should be having a “very authoritarian political views”. He should be courteous and soft spoken. He should not make any promise which is just not possible to deliver once he wins the election. And after winning, he should not break the promise he made just before the elections.

        He must have his own ideology and people should accept that as his way of leading them. The ideology of a politician or a political party is what their real identity is and that only should be followed through out the period that politician/political party rules.

        Its needless to say that an ideal politician should know about the region from which he plans to contest, the problems of the people therein, facilities that people have and opportunities that can be created in the future for his people. A politician can be compared with a “Bank” and a politician “should know his customers”, wherein his people are his customers.

        It is worth noting that both a politician and the party he belongs to are to be considered as a single entity and the same.

Politicians in the National Stage

        When a “small politician” wins the small elections and after a series of consecutive wins finds himself at the Indian Temple of Democracy, that is the “Parliament”, and then he should be tested if he is having . “very authoritarian political views”. When a person who successfully gets the support of his people and through their support goes to the Parliament of India, then the whole game plan has to change. It’s because he must remember that he is just not serving one particular region of the country, but he is “responsible to serve” the whole country.

        And when a “Politician” serves the whole country, then he should be aware of pros-and-cons of his actions, actions of his colleagues in the government, actions of the members of the opposition.

        He should see to it that the departments of his government are under his firm grip and obey him properly. He should also ensure that the departments of his government are bringing the facts and “on-the-ground” realities/occurrences to their exactness to him. And also he should make sure that all his policies are being properly implemented by his departments and those people to whom these policies were made in the first place are getting their benefits. In short, HE is responsible for the performance of his government.

        A person will have “very authoritarian political views” if he knows what he is doing, and considers the possible challenges that may come to him, while he is discharging his duties, which maybe internal or external. He also considers Financial, Economic or Military challenges. Any decision he makes should be after considering the above mentioned scenarios, which will lead to proper Justice, Dharma, Upliftment of the Poor, Maintenance of Law and Order, and happy, healthy and prosperous country that is India!

        Only such a “Politician” who has “Very Authoritarian Political Views” is fit to be the Prime Minister of India.