Letter sent to the Deccan Herald on the 13th. It was not published.
Sir,
This is to remind us all that we owe our leaders a fervent apology or two! Saw the visuals of the happenings inside the Vidhana Soudha on the 11th? What a tremendous strain we are causing them by electing them to represent us! And how kind and graceful of them to reassure us even in the midst of the fight for survival that they want only to serve the people still better!
We know the adage about politicians as people roosting in their last resort. But we forget how taxing it is for them to live up to that adage. Hopping or allowing to be herded from resort to resort is not child’s play. Some cynically call it resort politics, as if it always is not! How naive! Being politicians, where else should they be?
The Chief Minister was visiting temples even in far flung places when the political crisis in the State was gathering into a storm. What else should he have done? For, is not the motto embossed on the façade of the Vidhana Soudha, “Government Work Is God’s Work”?
