The DEEWAR effect

Remember the dialogue in the movie Deewar (the old one) said by Amitabh Bachchan when he is asked to sign some papers by his screen brother Shashi Kapoor. ‘Jao pehle us aadmi ka sign lekar aao jisne mere haath pe yeh likh diya tha ... uske baad mere bhai tum jis kagaz pe kahoge main uspe sign kar doonga’. 

The character means that he has been wronged and he wants the people who had wronged him to be punished first before he accepts his crimes and is punished for those. Classic example of playing the blame game and having a holier than thou attitude.

This dialogue has been modified by most present day politicians to suit their status. Whenever they are asked about some wrong doing or crime that they had allegedly committed, instead of accepting or denying these allegations they simply point to alleged wrong doings or crimes of their political opponents. They say that their opponents need to be punished first before they are even charged for their crimes.

What is appalling is that if in case their opponents were not punished for some crime they start justifying their own actions and give an impression that they also need not be punished.

Talk about two wrongs making a right. Well this is not arithmetic where addition of two negative integers results in a positive integer.

The politicians think that the audience are stupid and will respect and accept whatever they say. Well it seems in most cases the politicians are correct in their assessment of the public.

The people are fooled to believe these politicians as can be seen from the various arguments the common people get into over different issues. The common people get so much engrossed in arguing their cases, against each other through various media (social media being one of the favorites), that they miss the whole plot that the politicians play in taking our attention off from the real issues of development or the lack of it.