An animal's dead body has to be removed or it starts to stink. The stench spreads all over and destroys one’s comfort. But unfortunately we keep waiting for some one to come and do the needful. It so hapens that another dead body is added and the obnoxious smell increases. This becomes a pattern of life for ordinary people. The crime is not the stench, but the fact that there is such a degree of indifference to it, that it become part of our lives.
In governance too, there are many useless elements. They are incapable of doing anything, but we make a habit of living with this phenomena. We hope it will go away, but it only adds to the original stink, and then it starts becoming part of our life. Finally we believe there is no hope for change.
In the Mahabharata, Bhismadeva tells Yudhisthira that it is the duty of the subject to respect the king as a representation of God in this world. But he also says, if the kings starts stinking and creates a stench of bad governance he should be dislodged by severe punishment. In fact the statement is very strong; “A mad dog which is creating danger to people has to be killed by casting stones.”
Cast your vote to remove any stinking corpses and find some one who is close to Bhisma's ideal.
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