Someone Like Imran Khan Has Taken A Lid Off, But There Are Many Lids To Be Blown-Off
By D N Singh
In politics of the day, admission by any leader on his failures, anywhere in the world’s political spectrum, can be seen as a oxymoron.
At a time when dissensions and honest views are anathemas to the people in power, Pakistan Prime Minister’s open admission about his failures can be read as a sample far removed from the political genesis today.
May be an enemy country and a hovel for extremism but, it was, may be, a compulsive confession, from the Pakistani PM that should be taken as an example.
When he said that, the system is not ready or “incapable of absorbing the shock”, it speaks volumes where politics today stands, no matter whichever country it may be.
As if the moderators sitting in power, or elected leaders, and the inbuilt system, both are diametrically opposite to each other’s principles.
When the said above prime minister directly saying that, the(his) “promised change” could not be effected due to “fault” in the system, it is discernible that, it was not about politics in that country which refuses to accept sharpened critiques on the ruling apparatus, but, it seems in most of the systems propelled by a thing called democracy have the same inherent problem the world over.
Not to be economical with the truth, Khan has suddenly appeared vociferous against a milieu from where he derives the political air to breath. He has shown guts in a way, nevertheless.
It can as well be construed that, he has reached a sort of climax to his political matrix !
If it is about that, there is a whopping gap in the thoughts and aspirations of the ruled, then no country in the world can self-back-pat as a different entity now.
Imran, who started with a chest-thumping regarding “revolutionary” changes, in fact, took a long time to realise what he did now.
Sitting on a fragile democracy and walking along with a military ‘junta’, he knew it and what he confessed should be, may be by default, a compunction for many politicians in the world.
Politics, someone said, cannot be without deceit and lies. Impartial analysis also revealed that, politicians have a peculiar penchant for interpreting silence of people as innocence or compliance. Which, it is not.
To remember George Orwell here “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics. ‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
