Guruji! enough is enough

Politics is the art of possible. However, a few politicians of Jharkhand are impossible on many accounts. Their opportunism, self-centered thought processes, shameless volte-face, way of redefining the lowest morals of public life, are incredibly impossible to match. Leading the pack of such faces is none other than our honorable Chief Minister Shibu Soren. Caught in a fierce battle between the choices of political oblivion and a proven authority on the kingdom of Jharkhand, Guruji's moves appear as desperate as the word desperate is.

Tamar's claim to fame till date has been restricted to Ramesh Singh Munda, but Guruji's candidature has not only hogged national and international limelight, it has also brought a world of attention, freebies and goodies to this almost unknown constituency and its electorates. All the candidates are trying to score some democratic points, but their ammunitions still wear the conventional political strategies involving money, muscle, power and diplomacies. Guruji has traveled the extra mile by falling way below the lower limits of humanitarian values and ethics of electoral politics. Maoists are like my son, they are a part of my family, MCC didn't kill Sunil Mahato and other inviting gestures from the septuagenarian stalwart speaks volumes of his political insecurity, and vulnerability to his leadership potential.

All said and done, it is one of the most trying times of his political career as time constraints, constitutional regulations and his biggest dream to rule Jharkhand for substantial time have brought him to Tamar which has never been a JMM stronghold. The party doesn't have an organisational structure in place and local leadership is completely out of sorts. The UPA dispensation deserves to mobilise its all resources to ensure a smooth victory for their poster boy in Jharkhand, who can make or mar its fortunes in the ensuing parliamentary elections, but at what cost? The residents of the unfortunate State, where MCC runs parallel governance, can't correctly to decipher the coded carrot Guruji is trying to offer the Maoists. He has several questions to answer. Is a victory in Tamar so important that he could stoop down to this new low of making a dreaded criminal like Kundan Pahan equivalent to his sons? Is the infamous chief ministerial chair that lucrative that he decides to undermine the sacrifice of a young and promising MP from Jamshedpur? Is another small stint at the helm of affairs so compelling that he has turned for help to those fanatics who killed a popular leader like Ramesh Singh Munda and dragged the State to political instability when it should have been focusing on other priorities? Has his credentials on winnability suffered such a big blow that he can't win an Assembly election without flouting the code of conduct laid by Election Commission, by distributing electrical transformers, sanction orders of new bridges and roads that would not have been there had he not been in the fray? Has this fear of a debacle made Guruji remove Enos Ekka and Harinarayan Rai, who literally institutionalised corruption for the last three years through his chosen indifference to their deeds, or is it the threat perception analysis of Raja Peter?

Shobha De shouted: Enough is enough-after Mumbai terror attack! There has been a great deal of civilian upheaval in response to that. Those were extremists and Pakistan sponsored them. But how a country can safeguard itself from external enemies, when one of its own Chief Ministers offers the internal destructors a parentage? Jharkhand is on the brink of State-sponsored lawlessness, chaos and anarchy. Who will define the term 'enough' for Jharkhand? Surely, not leaders like Shibu Soren! If the common man of the State doesn't wake up even with this alarm, the headquarters of MCC and other similar outfits will soon shift to CM's residence at Kanke Road! Doug Gwyn said: Truth is not determined by majority vote. At least, never in Tamar!