To be fair, Manohar Parrikar is a good organiser and has a positive work culture. Whether he is a good administrator or a good man in a wrong party is a matter of personal preferences. He is one politician who will at least acknowledge the receipt of your mails, even though nothing beyond that may be forthcoming. The hallo around Manohar is just a creation of agggressive marketing and nothing more. There is no much difference when it comes to ethics and values in politics. It is only that the same things Congress does are done differently with adequate cover up mechanisms in place. It is just that the corruption is polished in comparison to the brash approach by Congress. That's all. In the end, it is the Politics of Compulsions that rides supreme. I would go by Jayprakash Narayan's observations in his treatise 'Towards a Total Revolution', that every political party forgets its lofty ideals once in power and starts building its treasury with a focus on the next election. They will kill, heal, kiss, maim or do anything if it will fetch them votes in the elections. All that the voters have before them in the present scenario is the choice of falling from the frying pan into the fire. That corruption will be abolished and Swiss bank money will return to abolish poverty in Bharat, forget it.
-Soter D.
