As they say, politics is always pregnant with possibilities, but in the coming day or 2 the Indian media will turn self styled midwives to facilitate a premature delivery of Indian democracy’s baby – The Verdict 2009. They will be abuzz with jargons like exit polls, analysis, swings, vote shares, anti and pro incumbency and what not.
The final countdown is on; if astrologers played a part in the pre election phase its now the turn of numerologist, psephologists and even equine lovers….equine lovers???… yeah not the thorough bred Arabian ones but the not so bred Indian politicians will be traded as Horses.
Definition of Horse trading from wikepedia, in the original sense, the buying and selling of horses, also called "Horse Dealing". Due to the great difficulties of evaluating the merits or demerits of a horse offered for sale, the selling of horses offered great opportunities for dishonesty. It was not to be expected that the sellers of horses would fail to capitalize on these opportunities; thus those who dealt in horses have always had a reputation for shady business practices.
We are in an era where we have the tools and the means to evaluate the merits and demerits of our politicians, but for some strange reason they are still being branded along with the horses and will be traded like them. But horses are graceful animals; the behaviour of our politicians in the coming couple of days will be a far cry from the well bred equine fraternity.
By the dawn of 17th May a picture will emerge on who beds whom and for how long and on what conditions in our great Indian democracy for the next five years, provided carefully worded pre nuptials are drafted and signed.
You & I will watch yet another government take shape and rule over us…life will go on… but let’s just pray and hope that once the sleeping arrangements are in place they finally decide to run the family responsibly and not just live in with no commitments.
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