SHOULD POLITICIANS BE GIVEN TRAINING?

I was about to write a blog post with this heading weeks ago but I could not. A comment on my FB status about Arvind Kejriwal gave impetus to my thoughts once again. Being disappointed with Kejriwal’s dharna in Delhi I updated my status: “Kejriwal is really an AamAdmi, knows nothing only dharnas and hunger strike.”

“He is an IITian… worked as Jt. Commissioner in the Income tax Department… that’s enough to describe him…” a friend of mine commented.

Do you people also think the same? If yes, “India is not an electronic gadget that it needs chips but a country which needs politicians to run it. Then what’s the use of being IITian?”

I think politicians should be given training at least for public interest. We need a govt. who thinks of ‘aam admi’ not one constituting of ‘aam admi’. No way am I criticizing an ‘aam admi’ because I am also one as I also don’t know about governance.

Even an IAS officer is given training. They belong to the most talented group of people. They clear prelims, mains and finally interviews. If govt. thinks they need to be trained then why not the politicians who get the post only delivering discourse in public?

If finance minister does not know current GDP, health minister does not know the minimum distance between two medical colleges, minister of external affairs does not know India’s boundaries then how things will do? And if Law minister does not respect court summon then how India expects other to respect?

          A leader has many things to do. He must be bold, enthusiastic and above all a sink for all problems. A child cries hoping he has parents to console him. What conditions will the same child go through if the parents start crying instead? Delhi CM goes for dharna. He never thought he is Delhi’s parent now. Don’t Delhiites feel insecure?

India should start training its politicians to be bold, enthusiastic and promising so that people feel secure even in the worst of times.

Training should be for:

•         All candidates who gets nominations (pre-election training)

-          To refrain themselves from commenting on others.

-          To have a good conduct.

-          And to know what they say or promise.

•          All who win election (intensive training)

Lastly,politics is not what we think it is. It’s a science and when it’s science it should be treated as one…..