GOP and Waning powers to intervene
By: Amit Bhushan Date: 31st July 2017
In a democratic set up, when in doubt, approach people. Unfortunately the netas do everything to forget it, because to them it is people’s job to approach them. The Common people’s party followed the mantra in its quest for being ‘different’ and wow, it got back to power in a state despite negligible things to ‘show’ and up against ‘powers that be’. It is also the ‘main’ opposition in another, though no one sings about the same including the party netas. The newspapers are flooded by the turn of events in politics and netas chasing other netas seem to have become the order of the day and played as a masterstroke for some ‘smart netas’. Then of course there is a panoply among some of these emerged ‘power centers’ to showcase the smartness of their ‘political move’ and besmirch the ramblings somewhere else. The netas in this role take up the task of voters giving out 'judgements' rather than stooping at the level of putting forth their argument with the media playing up these to the gallery depending on 'its chosen side'.
With political operations of most parties being run by and through netas and a loss of connect with people, we see political tumult. However this is easily forgotten and often difficult to recall especially when the ‘commercial media’ is almost all out to celebrate the smartness of the ‘power center netas’. Questions like ‘package for Bihar’ and ‘what all new projects/schemes based on manifestos’ are easily forgotten and the ‘Chanakya’ profile for survival becomes the question to be pondered over political moves especially in the ‘commercial news media’. It is assumed that people like to hear about the netas and all there moves when the market for such reporting is already dying a steady death in the ‘age of social media’. What people like to listen is deliveries through the new possibilities and there is almost no deliberation on the same regards ability to deliver the promised services.
Basically as ‘opposition’ GOP never took the state netas and questioning them around ‘Game’ questions with seriousness. In fact wherever the party is in ‘opposition’ in the state, one hardly knows who is the ‘LoP’ or the neta of GOP and the central netas are busy promoting themselves and their ‘interests’. This is in spite of these articles in Management Paradise highlighting the rise of profile for the state chief ministers and regional leaders. Lack of meaningful interventions in states seems to be in wane while tamasha may be on in the center and some of it may be meaningful. However there is drift amongst the state netas, who may be drawing a zilch in this bargain and ready to jump the ship. There seem little ‘opposition’ role in Bengal or Odisha where ‘opposition’ happens outside of the assembly rather both inside and outside. And the stories of government and industry excesses in Chhattisgarh need to be highlighted by ‘you know who’ rather than the opposition there. For the mandarins in government and the commercial news media though, they begin and end their life covering the celebrity neta rather than people aspirations championed by them. Not one journo in the commercial news media has raised the issues around Pasmanda community over the last few days and this calls about the hypocrisy since the same media was gungho championing the cause and justifying the earlier drift in state politics. This is said to make and elaborate the point of hypocrisy in our commercial news media as well besides the political parties and netas. Let the ‘Game’ evolve….
By: Amit Bhushan Date: 31st July 2017
In a democratic set up, when in doubt, approach people. Unfortunately the netas do everything to forget it, because to them it is people’s job to approach them. The Common people’s party followed the mantra in its quest for being ‘different’ and wow, it got back to power in a state despite negligible things to ‘show’ and up against ‘powers that be’. It is also the ‘main’ opposition in another, though no one sings about the same including the party netas. The newspapers are flooded by the turn of events in politics and netas chasing other netas seem to have become the order of the day and played as a masterstroke for some ‘smart netas’. Then of course there is a panoply among some of these emerged ‘power centers’ to showcase the smartness of their ‘political move’ and besmirch the ramblings somewhere else. The netas in this role take up the task of voters giving out 'judgements' rather than stooping at the level of putting forth their argument with the media playing up these to the gallery depending on 'its chosen side'.
With political operations of most parties being run by and through netas and a loss of connect with people, we see political tumult. However this is easily forgotten and often difficult to recall especially when the ‘commercial media’ is almost all out to celebrate the smartness of the ‘power center netas’. Questions like ‘package for Bihar’ and ‘what all new projects/schemes based on manifestos’ are easily forgotten and the ‘Chanakya’ profile for survival becomes the question to be pondered over political moves especially in the ‘commercial news media’. It is assumed that people like to hear about the netas and all there moves when the market for such reporting is already dying a steady death in the ‘age of social media’. What people like to listen is deliveries through the new possibilities and there is almost no deliberation on the same regards ability to deliver the promised services.
Basically as ‘opposition’ GOP never took the state netas and questioning them around ‘Game’ questions with seriousness. In fact wherever the party is in ‘opposition’ in the state, one hardly knows who is the ‘LoP’ or the neta of GOP and the central netas are busy promoting themselves and their ‘interests’. This is in spite of these articles in Management Paradise highlighting the rise of profile for the state chief ministers and regional leaders. Lack of meaningful interventions in states seems to be in wane while tamasha may be on in the center and some of it may be meaningful. However there is drift amongst the state netas, who may be drawing a zilch in this bargain and ready to jump the ship. There seem little ‘opposition’ role in Bengal or Odisha where ‘opposition’ happens outside of the assembly rather both inside and outside. And the stories of government and industry excesses in Chhattisgarh need to be highlighted by ‘you know who’ rather than the opposition there. For the mandarins in government and the commercial news media though, they begin and end their life covering the celebrity neta rather than people aspirations championed by them. Not one journo in the commercial news media has raised the issues around Pasmanda community over the last few days and this calls about the hypocrisy since the same media was gungho championing the cause and justifying the earlier drift in state politics. This is said to make and elaborate the point of hypocrisy in our commercial news media as well besides the political parties and netas. Let the ‘Game’ evolve….