Think about it, everytime there is an election around, bhakts from every party go into mud-slinging mode. They passionately operate their social media trebuchets and because they lack any real ammo against the enemy, they have to resort to the online world equivalent of hurling decomposed animals and excreta, hoping that the other side will catch the plague.
One such instance is the recent allegation against AAP regarding some so-called dubious transactions of 500000 that happened at midnight. The accusations were that some of these companies do have legitimate address and that AAP should have verified these companies before accepting their cheques. The lack of intelligence is evident from the fact that RBI encourages cheque transactions because the money is considered white. If the legitimacy of the companies is in question, it is the responsibility of the banks, in which these companies operate accounts, to verify the addresses and identities of the customers. As such, the bank manager has to be held responsible. Doesn't anyone, in the largest party in the Lok sabha, have the courage (or intelligence) to tell their party workers "Stop, what your saying is wrong!"? I'm not sure whether any party can claim the high intelligence ground but what I am sure that democracy is for those who deserve it. A scientist once tried teaching wild monkeys how to use voting method to select the alpha male.. He was never heard from again. I would imagine that the aggressive monkeys drove him out of the forest and then fought among each other till the strongest one prevailed. The passive monkeys just sat nearby just watching. Although we have much evolved out of the primal behavior of monkeys, there is definitely something about elections that brings out the monkey in many of us. -- *Avinash Tavares*
