Guruji! Cricket se aapko kya mila?
After the enviable success of IPL, the venue shifted from Mumbai to the capital; and now DPL- Delhi Public League was panned out to us. Countdown has begun! Devegowda met Manmohan! Karat wins over Mayavati! Guruji may be the next CM of Jharkhand! 268 for UPA, 260 for NDA! Lucknow Airport renamed! Ambaanis tilting towards UPA! Independents never had it better! UNPA will nuke the govt.! 25 Crores for each of the SP MPs! The same hoopla, maddening arithmetic, politically illegitimate photo-ops etc., and as a frenzied nation; we have been devouring this auction as well. History repeated itself, but with a Jharkhandi twist. Though Jharkhand never had the riches to have its own team in IPL, and MSD won the highest bid through his Chennai Cap; in the DPL, the team from Jharkhand very well decided the fate of the tourney and help Mr. Manmohan Singh achieve a phoenix rise.
On the 22nd July - the grand finale, the lights were again back on the captain - the septuagenarian JMM supremo Shibu Soren. The cameras were following him and so were the aspirations and hopes of three Crore Jharkhandis. He voted for UPA, for Manmohan Singh and in favour of nuclear deal. Bidding price tag? Two ministerial births at the centre, and may be, they would install his son Hemant Soren as the Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Team Jharkhand had five players which included one from Orissa- a state which didn’t even have a single representation in IPL. Now, the big question is should Guruji have accepted this opportunistic bid to offer the on-life-support UPA with another lease of life for six months? Guruji! lets think through the options again and the weigh the strings attached to them.
Guruji! no one gets this opportunity everyday. With UPA: for you, another six months with coal ministry, rewards for your other MPs, may be more economic package for Jharkhand, duty free fun for DPL cheerleaders- the independent MPs like their Jharkhandi counterparts because everyone in Delhi needs them too. And, for the masses which four of your MPs represent, it will be 11.20% plus inflation, flaring fuel prices, parallel reign of naxalites, record breaking lawlessness, deafening stats of the corrupt ministers buying money counting machines, bureaucrats of the quality which transacted the chicken and buffalos for a laptop, to live with for another six months.
Guruji, no amount of economic servings or Jharkhandi representation at the centre for another six months, will be beneficial for us till we don’t get the basic right in the roots. With the defunct establishment of Jharkhand, more money means more freebies for the ministers and the babus. And, for your son, if he makes his debut on the crutches of opportunistic bargaining, the same may be the way of his departure. If you consider him as capable of leading the next generation of JMM, then allow him to learn the tough ways to the tops. Not through helicopter drops.
If common sense could prevail even tangentially on your decades old political know-how, you should have pulled the plug on Mr. Manmohan Singh and chosen to go to people and seek re-election. If you had dumped those lucrative offers, in the worst case scenario- the govt. would have fallen and the Congress might have brought Mr. Koda down in Jharkhand. But, you followed the predictable schemes. You forgot, what happened to your three friends who shared that infamous limelight in 1993 ‘JMM bribery case’? To err is human and to learn is a true statesman. After fifteen years, you had a chance to go for a mid course correction to rehash your celebratory venal image and prove the Oxbridge and Harvard managers wrong, through your Dumka fundamentals. But you did the predictable, because an average leader of your character and reputation doesn’t have the balls to think beyond selfish gains and vested ambitions. So Cricket se aapko kya mila, Guruji? A historic prospect to change the saleable ‘brand Jharkhand’ to a not-for –sale one for once and all! But like our Dhoni from ‘Chennai Super Kings’, even you missed it .He at least put up a show there, but you were bought over even without a silent protest. Shame on you!!!
After the enviable success of IPL, the venue shifted from Mumbai to the capital; and now DPL- Delhi Public League was panned out to us. Countdown has begun! Devegowda met Manmohan! Karat wins over Mayavati! Guruji may be the next CM of Jharkhand! 268 for UPA, 260 for NDA! Lucknow Airport renamed! Ambaanis tilting towards UPA! Independents never had it better! UNPA will nuke the govt.! 25 Crores for each of the SP MPs! The same hoopla, maddening arithmetic, politically illegitimate photo-ops etc., and as a frenzied nation; we have been devouring this auction as well. History repeated itself, but with a Jharkhandi twist. Though Jharkhand never had the riches to have its own team in IPL, and MSD won the highest bid through his Chennai Cap; in the DPL, the team from Jharkhand very well decided the fate of the tourney and help Mr. Manmohan Singh achieve a phoenix rise.
On the 22nd July - the grand finale, the lights were again back on the captain - the septuagenarian JMM supremo Shibu Soren. The cameras were following him and so were the aspirations and hopes of three Crore Jharkhandis. He voted for UPA, for Manmohan Singh and in favour of nuclear deal. Bidding price tag? Two ministerial births at the centre, and may be, they would install his son Hemant Soren as the Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Team Jharkhand had five players which included one from Orissa- a state which didn’t even have a single representation in IPL. Now, the big question is should Guruji have accepted this opportunistic bid to offer the on-life-support UPA with another lease of life for six months? Guruji! lets think through the options again and the weigh the strings attached to them.
Guruji! no one gets this opportunity everyday. With UPA: for you, another six months with coal ministry, rewards for your other MPs, may be more economic package for Jharkhand, duty free fun for DPL cheerleaders- the independent MPs like their Jharkhandi counterparts because everyone in Delhi needs them too. And, for the masses which four of your MPs represent, it will be 11.20% plus inflation, flaring fuel prices, parallel reign of naxalites, record breaking lawlessness, deafening stats of the corrupt ministers buying money counting machines, bureaucrats of the quality which transacted the chicken and buffalos for a laptop, to live with for another six months.
Guruji, no amount of economic servings or Jharkhandi representation at the centre for another six months, will be beneficial for us till we don’t get the basic right in the roots. With the defunct establishment of Jharkhand, more money means more freebies for the ministers and the babus. And, for your son, if he makes his debut on the crutches of opportunistic bargaining, the same may be the way of his departure. If you consider him as capable of leading the next generation of JMM, then allow him to learn the tough ways to the tops. Not through helicopter drops.
If common sense could prevail even tangentially on your decades old political know-how, you should have pulled the plug on Mr. Manmohan Singh and chosen to go to people and seek re-election. If you had dumped those lucrative offers, in the worst case scenario- the govt. would have fallen and the Congress might have brought Mr. Koda down in Jharkhand. But, you followed the predictable schemes. You forgot, what happened to your three friends who shared that infamous limelight in 1993 ‘JMM bribery case’? To err is human and to learn is a true statesman. After fifteen years, you had a chance to go for a mid course correction to rehash your celebratory venal image and prove the Oxbridge and Harvard managers wrong, through your Dumka fundamentals. But you did the predictable, because an average leader of your character and reputation doesn’t have the balls to think beyond selfish gains and vested ambitions. So Cricket se aapko kya mila, Guruji? A historic prospect to change the saleable ‘brand Jharkhand’ to a not-for –sale one for once and all! But like our Dhoni from ‘Chennai Super Kings’, even you missed it .He at least put up a show there, but you were bought over even without a silent protest. Shame on you!!!
