Arasiyala Idhellam Sadharnamappa !!!

The latest turn of events in Tamil Nadu politics just makes me laugh. Looks like party agenda and ideologies are just for namesake and that our great leaders want victory by hook or crook. Vaiko, who until a few days back was blowing horns about the Democratic Progressive Alliance, now seems resolute that his need of the hour is to get his party "a honorable number of seats".

Until yesterday Vaiko was someone who was supposedly supporting a terrorist outfit. He was arrested by this very ADMK government for the same under POTA. Now today someone is happy about being friends with Vaiko. At one point, I was totally impressed with Jayalalitha and so were a lot of folks from different parts of India. Everyone was impressed with some of the strong measures that she took on government employees, bus drivers, etc. But alas, she turned them all back for political gains. I wouldn't blame her for the people of Tamil Nadu did not give her a single victory in the MP elections - a great part of that blame to be shared by the educated elite who do not vote but rather choose to enjoy a holiday during the election.

Having said that, its not that the other alliance is all about ideologies. Criticizing someone first and then joining hands with the same person later is something that Karunanidhi has been doing for a few decades now. Blessed with good literary skills in Tamil, he can play with words to always reason out his actions. Family politics is something that he has perfected over the ages, better than the Nehru dynasty, with clear demarcation of property - center for the Maran family and TN for the Stalin family. The one person who is against Stalin being the CM is Vaiko and now that he is out MK has already started to move his coins in the right direction.

Political parties can do something to save trees - let them not print their election manifesto - for I believe its seldom put to use. Essentially it all boils down to the arithmetic of alliances. Whoever can aggregate vote shares win. There is no basis for the alliance - its just all mutual gains. In fact India can save a lot of money if they can work out these arithmetic and declare winners, for its pretty rare that such arithmetic fail. Only makes me recollect the once famous dialogue of Goundamani - Arasiyala Idhellam Sadharnamappa !!!