Dirty politics

Author: Daily Times

Sir: Ever had an urge to know that why our politics has been sustaining its reputation of “dirty politics” among masses? Ever wondered that why sober politics is inching-closer to its demise with giant strides? Ever felt down thinking why politics is still considered as the first-sibling of moral corruption-which is the root cause of every known kind of corruption — even after few in-between and last 10 straight years of democratic tenures in country’s history? Why!!?

Believe it or not, part of these raised and unraised questions’ answer rests in Ayesha Gulalai’s brand-new hardcore narrative against Nawaz Sharif and co. How is it so? Let’s connect the dots.

About half a dozen months flashback from now, when Nawaz Sharif was not-long-ago ousted. Media could not have asked anything better to cover. In an era where ratting has become the order of the day, our media had both; substance as well as rating. After all it was third time prime minister who had been disqualified.

When all the spinmasters the PMLN-N had planted at different media houses failed miserably to strength the narrative of Sharif family with vitamins of their rhetoric, the Sharifs were quick to analyze that the loopholes which stand in the way between their charges and innocence are just too many to defend for all the Goebbels of the day. Then they wanted to drag the one-way traffic of media into another direction. In Ayesha Gulalai they found the substitute of their problems and in the PML-N she saw the opportunity that would give wings to her political career.

When chipps were down for the Sharifs, she kept the media and public busy by accusing Imran Khan for sending her inappropriate texts. The issue remained in limelight for long enough that it gradually faded Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification from news channels’ agenda. Not to be forgotten, she spoke soft of Nawaz then. It was soon media’s turn to speak ill of Gulalai as days sneaked by without providing a fragment of evidence to support her allegation despite tall claims.

Now, come back to the present.

Gulalai lately termed Nawaz Sharif a bigger threat than Imran Khan. Why is there a sudden shift of tone? Well, it doesn’t take us PhD in political science to fathom that it is because senate elections are around the corner and she is denied the ticket from the PML-N to contest. She has been completely played-on. No more enemy’s enemy is my friend from the PML-N.

Our politics is dirty because its politicians like her are just a stretch away to alter loyalties for royalties. The mathematics is very simple here. In politics the higher the purchase tag of a politician the cheaper the politics becomes. Is there any way politics can keep itself clean amid the company of dirty politicians?

VASDEV

Tharparkar

Published in Daily Times, February 25th 2018.

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