Posted by Namita Bhandare:
My new column in Mint, looks at India’s lack of credible, ethical political leadership. Yes, we’ve had icons from sport, film and business. But politics has, in the 60-plus years since Independence, failed to throw up a single politician capable of providing inspiring leadership. Agree? Disagree? Send in your comments and vote for India’s most inspiring politician.
Rage remains the predominant mood nearly two weeks after a group of 10 men brought this country to its knees with an attack on Mumbai’s most visible icons. Who exactly are we mad at and what are we angry about?
The first is easy to answer. The second, somewhat more difficult.
Right now we’re pretty much angry with everyone. Our first target: our politicians. Insensitive, incompetent and out of touch with reality, how can we not rage against those we’ve entrusted our leadership with?
Already, this anger has claimed its victims: home minister Shivraj Patil, Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and his deputy R.R. Patil. But the list of shame is longer: Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, and a host of midget-sized Maharashtra politicians who ensured that caste, not competence, was what counted in deciding the state’s next chief minister.
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