Some Curious Politicians..

One politician to another: I want to be popular man. I want to be know the world over. People should remember me for a long time to come. Look at all our fellow politicians!! Look at the Raja's of the world, the Sibal's, the Chidambaram's!! They are all in the news everyday. They are all popular!! Why?

Other Politician: That's because they are all part of one scandal or the other, friend.

First Politician: Not only politicians, look at Dhanush. One Kolaveri song and the whole world loves him now!! There are many like him in the social world. How did they do it?

Second Politician: See, they were at the right place at the right time with the right people and the right content!! You can either wait for the moment to arrive, or stand up (or in some cases, keep sitting) and snatch your moment. One scandal is all it takes, my friend.

And the rest, as they say, is H-I-S-T-O-R-Y!!

Image: www.firstpost.com

Now, I am not going to tell you how it happened, that's one Google search away. Let's discuss something interesting. Let's see who all stands to gain in this.

1. Cell Phone companies - As you can see in the above pic, they were watching porn in their smart phones. Since the image appears blurred, we cannot make out (no pun intended) the cell phone brand. Imagine the kind of publicity the brand stands to gain!!

2. Porn Stars - Remember when Osama's house was raided? They found a lot of porn videos and one star was prominently featured in most of them!! What a credit!! Osama - part of the elite clientele. Just imagine how she might have leveraged this piece of information!!

3. Media companies - Media firms (especially the news channels and news websites) loved it. I mean, absolutely loved it!! What happened was "1+1=2" and they made it "1+sin(x^2+2xy+3yz+4zx+y^2) = ??" Sensational, isn't it?? To make matters worse, the pervert ministers proclaimed innocence by saying they were watching an educational clip!! 

Here are some of the (misleading) headlines I came across on the net -

a. Porn scandal rocks Karnataka Assembly, Oppn smells blood - Hindustan Times.
b. Karnataka ministers in porn scandal: 10 developments - NDTV.
c. Karnataka sleaze row: Opposition slams BJP, wants MLAs suspended - IBNLive.com
d. Porn in assembly: 3 BJP ministers resign in Karnataka - Hindustan Times.

Was it a scandal? With too much scandals happening every single day, I might have misinterpreted the meaning of the word.

But Tehelka wins the headline competition!!

Governor accepts “porngate” ministers' resignations - Tehelka.

Porngate?? Really?? We had slapgate's before, shoe-gates, ink-gates and now porn gates? Someone please tell the media guys that they were 'watching' porn, they were not in the porn clip!! Had they been a part of it, porngate seems an appropriate word.

Gosh, we love sensationalism, don't we?

Bottom-line: On a more serious note - It's a shameful act by our politicians. With such acts, they are actually nullifying the trust we citizens entrust them with. Assembly is a place to brainstorm and debate the various ways of improving the life of common citizens. In contrast, politicians are found sleeping, throwing chairs, damaging property, walking out as and when they feel like along with the other acts of indecency in the same assembly hall. This is not a post berating one political party and uplifting another. All are in the same boat. Only the acts / scandals are different. Sad.

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