E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The Ace Political Expert (APE) had blisters all over his feet as he had to walk more than 6 km last Monday after waiting for around four hours to catch a BMTC bus.
When I met him in his house, he had his feet in a tub of hot water and salt.
“What went wrong on Manic Monday? Didn’t you anticipate this kind of a thing?” I asked.
“Everything that could go wrong went wrong that day. It was foolish to have organized such a rally on a Monday morning in the heart of the city,” said APE.
“But H.D. Kumaraswamy says he had already informed the police chief Shankar Bidri and taken his permission.”
“Yes. That was the second mistake. Only infantile minds would want to do a rally in the centre of the city on the first week of the week and an equally similar mind would give the approval. The father-son duo should have anticipated this and taken some precautionary steps,” said the APE applying hot sponge to the blisters.
“Like what?”
“They could have asked the head masters/ head mistresses of schools to declare a holiday so that the future citizens, if they survive similar rallies in the future, could stay home and watch / play cricket when the coronation of the son goes on… Similarly, they could have warned prospective critical patients to call for ambulances and got admitted to hospitals previous night itself, instead of disturbing the rally.”
I was surprised by what he said but kept quiet as I felt previous day’s trauma might have affected the contents of his cortex.
“Very true. Precaution should have been the watchword of at least, patients.”
“Likewise, they could have asked those catching flights to go the airport the previous night itself and sleep there. There is enough place for half of Bangalore to sleep there. As far as IT/bitty is concerned the less said, the better.”
“Say something.”
“They are a pampered lot. They might be a Rs 60,000 crore industry, but do they ever care to understand the problems of the common man that the rally was trying to address? When they are earning so much couldn’t they have declared holiday on the day of the rally? That is the least they could have done to strengthen democracy in India.”
“What did JD(S) achieve by this rally?”
“It proved a great success and I won’t be surprised if they hold bigger rallies by getting everybody in Karnataka to come Bangalore the next time. It will be something like the crowds they had for ‘Quit India’ Movement held in Gowalia Tank Mumbai in 1942,” replied the APE.
As I took his leave, I thought, if they both announced a ‘Quit Karnataka’ Movement, the whole of Bangalore will pour in to the street creating the mother of all gridlocks and traffic jams….
The last line of this article was awesome. If DG and HDK announce that they will ‘Quit Karnataka’, I will personally lead a rally of 100,000 people to celebrate. I am sure it will be easy to find those many people for that cause!!
If at all there is so much hate for father-son duo why is that they are still surviving in Indian politics.
Instead of attacking him personally if people think of getting to the root of their existence and removing it i think they will definatly accept their defeat and will never come back.
but what is happeneing? Inspite of being defeated so badly they are still able to gather 4 lakh people?So what’s actually happening?
What makes them come back after each election?can anyone answer this?
Rajakeeya:
They are still able to ‘gather’ 4 lakh people? Huh, I will tell you how they are able to ‘gather people’. In fact, you give me 1.5 crore, and I will myself gather people and show you a live demonstration. 1.5 crore is small change for the ‘father son’ duo. A few packets of arrack, three meals, and free ride in bus from their village and back – that is enough to gather people. The more money you have, the more you can ‘gather’.
Vinay
last election they got 50 lakh votes remember 50 lakh votes.BJP got 87 lakh votes.
Even after so much drama still 50 lakh people voted for that party.how is my question? Shouldn’t we try to try to know 50 lakh people still voted for that party inspite of all its actions and dramas?
So the thing is to identify the reason of its survival and try to remove it.Thats the way to go for in politics.
2 party system cannot be introduced in karnataka with Operation kamala and other things.Other things need to be checked to weaken a party.
There is a section which will vote for BJP, no matter what. There is a section that will vote for congress, no matter what. There is yet another section that will vote for JDS, no matter what. The remaining, small, oscillating section is the one that makes the difference in elections. It is very difficult, if not impossible, to convert that oscillating section permenantly..
vinay: he remaining, small, oscillating section is the one that makes the difference in elections.
karnataks’s estimate population should be around 6 crores. Out of it you have only accounted for less than 50%. So the remaining oscillating section are the section who do not vote ! Out of this substantial portion would obviously belong to the urban elite. That is why the whether it was Urs in the 70’s ( he used to openly tell hostile urban crowd that he knows how to get his votes) or Gowda and kumara’s of today who openly taunt us.
But you should put the blame for the recent fracas of the Rally to Shankar Bidri for allowing it on a week day. This pompous man insists KSCA should take a License to conduct a cricket match and and yet allows the day and night match yesterday to midnight. If in a similar case a music show is held at Bangalore, the police insist it should close by 11AM. It appears cricket watching public have different privileges.
I dont understand what this entire ceremony was for?? What are the father-son duo gathering people and celebrating for?? Their imminent loss in next elections?
Yes, the educated elite is a bunch of fools for not voting. If everyone really votes, DG and sons will not have a chance. You’re right. visit http://www.jaagore.com and tell all the ‘educated elite’ you know to visit this site too. spread the word..
To be fair with Bidri, he is endorsing the suggestion(his own?) to convert the old jail premises in Gandhinagar to an activism zone( a la Jantar Mantar area in Delhi) where all sorts of jathas can be held in whopping 14 acres and according to him, traffic will not bottleneck too.
Jeevarathna, Cricket tournaments are religious functions and they have their own personal law and different genres of music, though have their own religions they are not prominent enough!
They should fight for the minority status! :D
Rally is organised in Bangaluru , the capital of Karnataka. WHY SHOULD THEY GO FOR OTHER PLACES.Bangaluru is having better infrastructure facilities that,people from other parts of karnataka can gather easily. It is the true fact that HDK and Devegouda are the sons of this soil and they have the full right to organise this rally,where in rural people can gather easily. You should blame authorities for not acting on precoutions on traffic management.People of Karnataka has every right to visit Bangaluru. Sorry Vinay,you can not do everything with money alone.
Accept the fact four lakh people can not gather only for money.However Devegouda is but his son has done something good for Karnataka.(Atleast better than present Government)
Indushekhar:
What special thing(s) has DG (or his sone) done for Karnataka? Let me know?