With elections so near in Maharastra, everywhere the election fever is high and temp is moving up only! Today, I read some news items related to some odd happenings in and due to elections and that led me to think how complex the Indian politics is and no matter what, so many odd things keep happening. I have mention some of them that quickly comes to my mind, and these are intended to read from the view point of “odd-ity” and then laugh out at it :)
• Election symbols – I have seem everything that can come to your mind as a symbol of parties and/or independent ones. It varies so much that no brain in the world can define any category for them. Add to this, one more fact, that some of these are used by more than 1 parties!! So if u vote for a bicycle, in one state u may b voting SP but in another u may be voting TDP!
Some examples are: Coconut, Needle, Cycle (For SP as well as TDP, same symbol!!), Charkha, Hand, Lotus, Elephant, Flag, Arrow, Lantern, Shankh, Lady Farmer Carrying paddy on her head, Seedhi (Ladder), Lion, Murga (cock), Hand-pump, Rising Sun, Pen, Star, Whistle, Spectacles, Plough, Telephone, Bow and Arrow, two leaves, scales, umbrella, flowers and grass…the "diverse" list goes on.
• Madhu Koda became the CM of Jharkhand. He was an independent candidate, without any support or party! Only in India you can have a single independent become a CM while parties with 25-30 MLAs not able to get CM post!
• Uddhav Thakre – in his rally yesterday, ended up appealing to his voters to vote for NCP-Congress!!! Can you believe this!!! In Maharastra, the fight is between BJP-Shiv Sena and NCP-Congress!! But Uddhav said to supporters, you are not happy with Shivsena-BJP then you vote for NCP-Congress, but don’t vote for MNS!
• Coming to MNS – The party is fighting on issues like Marathi people should get reservation in jobs and marathi should be spoken as main language in maharastra etc. But newspapers report that he has outsourced his election tele-calling to AP !! And then, he got his advertising pamphlets ets printed in Hindi, Gujrati, Telgu and what not!!
• Congress and Trinmool (TMC) are together in central govt. They recently fought municipal elections against Left in WB, but after election, congress, which fought with TMC against Left, has formed Municipal corporation board with Left, against TMC ha ha ha…..it’s so funny!! Now Mamta is taking this “breach of trust” issue to public to vote against congress, but still she is supporting congress at center!
• Lalu, Mayavati, Mulayam, Nayaran Rane, Jayalalita, Chand Mohammad (Haryana Dy-CM who changed religion, remarried, divorced, again changed religion…and the saga is still going on!), Mamta, Karat, V. S. Achuthanandan (Kerala CM, who himself officially works against party official line on his adversary, and still is CM!!), Modi, Jagdish Tytler, Padam Sinh Patil (currently under arrest by CBI),..the list is already so long, and we have just started! - Only India politics can have such diverse characters and only Indian Politics can tolerate and accommodate all of them simultaneously!!!
Seriously, I just kept thinking about these oddly funny things and laughed out loud on these!!
Would love to have your comments on this topic!!
Interesting facts:)!
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