Growth rate, dal roti and criminals

Define a politician.... Ans, A person who is good at everything other than what he is supposed to be good at.
Define a wannabe politician... Ans, Someone who's great at what he does, but wants to suck at it by joining politics.

And that's exactly what Baba Ramdev (The semi naked baba who teaches yoga and is a regular bane to people with grandparents, especially when there's an awesome movie going on) is planning to do. Bored with teaching the same old stuff, the great baba is planning to flaunt his own political party. "Stick to your yoga" is what I wanted to tell him when I was reading this article in the Times when I noticed one of his dialogue. He said "Manmohan Singh is a great economist and understands the economics growth rate very well, but he does not understand the economics of dal roti."

I scoffed at this statement just like you might be doing now, but there is some truth to it. An increased growth rate is good for a nation, but the nation mostly consists of people who don't give a rat's fart for the growth rate. They want dal roti for their daily lives, and reduced prices in their daily essentials. What use is an increased growth rate when there is inflation. An Economist might disagree with me saying that Growth rate and Inflation are different things, but the reality is that the people of the country are not economists. All i need is for the price of my vegetables to go down, bugger the growth rate.

Nevertheless, Baba Ramdev, never in a hundred years will you get my vote. I would rather put my trust on Manmohan Singh and his Harvard degree and would sooner have him lead the nation.

Political sense seems to have been flushed down the loo in the Deve Gowda household, with both father and son trying to outdo each other for the place of "The most ridiculed" title in Karnataka politics. The constitution says that criminals who have been sentenced cannot stand for elections while it gives the green signal for people who have been acquitted.
Its easy for us to say that people who have been charged with an offence also be denied the chance but it is very unrealistic. All someone has to do then to prevent a candidate from taking part in the elections is frame him in some dacoity or murder ( I guess I've been watching too much kannada soap, and I know doing that is difficult, but its still not impossible) There is nothing that can be done by the judiciary in this regard. All lies in the voters' hands. Vote for the right person if you have a vote.

Campaigning for the BBMP elections is getting more annoying daily. Y?esterday was the height when there were two autos, one from Congress and the other from BJP, trying to outshout each other on the mike. the result was a nasty case of noise pollution and nothing more. If everybody who moves about with those candidates makes sure that their families vote for him then the candidate is going to win with ease. Unfortunately, most people campaign for money and nothing more.

Anyway, coming back to second PU exams, half our fates are decided already. The other half will be decided on April 28 and 29. All the best folks. But remember, a wise man once said "Marks dont maketh a man, it only makes proud parents and nosy relatives"

P.S. the wise man is me :P