Politics and Politicians

Must be surprised to read the heading but this is what i felt while watching a debate on policitcs and India on Star Ananda, the bengali news channel of Star TV. There were eminent persons on the show like Salman Khurshid, Mamta Banerjee, Swapan Dasgupta, Ramchandra Guha, Rahul Dravid, Suhel Seth, Jai Panda and others. While the erudition on democracy, politics, bad politicians, corruption, bringing about change continued with arguments and countr arguments, Mamta Banerjee raised a very pertinent question or should I say two. One she said that people who take potshots at politicians, who call themselves intellectuals and manage the game from beind should come forward and join active people's politics. She even offered seats to Swapan Dasgupta and Suhel Seth in the coming elections of Bengal from her party. Her argument is very true that such people do not have the ability to take risk and come forward and face the masses. It is very easy to make policies in closed doors, what really takes courage is to go out, meet the people for whom the policies are made and keep them satsfied. The second question that she raised was that only the bad gets highlighted. Apart from the scams there are many positive things that being done by the governments but it hardly gets ever written about.
Rahul Gandhi often in his public addresses mentions the role of youth and especially of women in politics ans how they can change the way politics is being perceived. If the youth comes in then people like swapan dasgupta, suhel seth and others will be sidelined and democracy may be practiced in the spirit in which it was adopted.
Bye