Election Results, Reservations again and the disappointing Lok Parithran

I know its too late for me to comment on the TN Assembly election results but the rivetting NBA playoffs and my crazy fascination to it and also the summer classes which bother me to a certain extent have kept me busy and consequently made this post a little outdated. The Election results were as expected. The TN voters chose the other Dravidian party. In Tamil Nadu it has always been a case of voting against the incumbent party. The DMK and ADMK swap powers on such a consistent basis that they pretty much know that they cannot retain power and hence try to extract as much as possible and hence the cases against the former government and the so called acts of "political vendetta" by the new governments(both parties included). The converse fact should also hold true that people get fed up with the votes of the incumbent government and just vote for the alternative party to give them. Maybe its a combination of both these factors and also a lack of third choice in Tamil Nadu that causes the predictable return of the alternative party to power each and every time the Elections are held. In West Bengal the opposite thing has been happening for an amazingly long period of time. The Left has held power for almost three decades now. I guess they must be doing something good!!!!!!!!!

There has been enough debates and protests about reservations. As usual these debates and protests are proving to be useless. They just spread the information a little more to the common mass. The Government has decided to go ahead with a reservation from 27% in 2007. I happened to watch the interview of karan thapar with Arjun Singh where Arjun Singh had literally no answers for his statistics and perfectly logical questions expressing the flaws of the reservation. Karan Thapar repeatedly tortured him with accurate data and crisp questions and it is also fair to say that Arjun Singh also tortured Karan Thapar with his blunt replies and a constant safe reference to the reservation as a decision taken by the Parliament. Ultimately though the interview was pretty much similar to the protesst held over the countries; useless and the government decides to go ahead with the reservation policy. Apparently if the wise men of the Country take a decision ( good or bad) it is near impossible to reverse the decision. This is a sorry state of affairs.

I think it may not be out of context to bring the potential demise of Lok Parithran.I was one of the many persons who had some hope in Lok Parithran( at least I thought so ). On reading the news about their split, that too so soon after the elections I was extremely disappointed. I did not expect this from youngsters with great knowledge who had left their potential lucrative careers to choose this path. The reason for the split was the normal egotistical issues and each party accused the other side making it look like the age old political parties that people hate. I have heard this saying in my childhood " Politics is like gutter. Don't get into it. It is very impossible for a good man to succeed in politics. Polictics convert good people into bad people" . Maybe it does.

Here are the links to the interview. It may be a waste of time or useful depending on the way you see it

http://home.iitk.ac.in/~vivmisra/arjun.wmv
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~vivmisra/arjun2.wmv