The mood was of celebration. The air
was split with aroma. The body language was swaying with a subtle joy of
achievement.
First phase of the transition was
complete.
And it was achieved on a lightning
fast scale.
Something unprecedented, totally unmatched,
a never heard of feat, never before seen in the history of contemporary Indian
politics!
It took decades for the two main
national political parties of India to achieve that scale.
The Congress politically led the
country in the freedom struggle for some six decades before it got the
governing benches. The Bhartiya Janata Party had decades of wok by the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh and the Bhartiya Jana Sangh and over a decade of its own
before it could realize the power flowing in the legislative corridors.
Similar is the case of other political
parties and politicians, be it Mayawati and Bahujan Samaj Party or Mulayam
Singh Yadav and Samajwadi Party or Nitish Kumar-Sharad Yadav and Janata Dal
(United) or Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rashtriya Janata Dal or many other offshoots
of Janata Dal and their leaders or personality driven parties of South India.
Though some of them had relatively
swift ascendance to the eminence of power corridors and the realization of the
life thus the way the folklore goes, none of them could match the level of efficacy
and energy shown by the newest one of their league.
And he has done it in just two years -
two years eight months to be exact - since he first spoke going 'political' in
August 2012 - and two years four months - since he formally inaugurated politically!
Obviously, there would be some
hurt-burn and it is very well there. After all, they are like human beings,
even if they have a separate, higher class.
The primeval feelings do exist and act
like the sub-conscious flings.
But, overall, the peers are looking up
at them. In fact, they have held sessions in their respective quarters to analyse
the ways and means of their latest colleague.
And now, as the first phase of the
transition is over, the next phase is beginning - to build on the weekend drama
that the nation saw with bated breath.
After all, when the premise that is
going to lead to the dramatics of the next stage unveiling on coming day has
been so interesting that even the housewives stuck to the television sets
ignoring the regular sob-and-blob family dramas, the theatrics when it emerges
on the full canvas of its next act, will be a 'mush watch' series.
And like us, they would also be watching
- with increasing level of comfort drawn from an increasingly familiar set of
observations.
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/
