All is Fair in Love, Poetry, Finance and Politics

Is it true that all is fair in love and war? Of course not! Even in love and war you have to play by certain unwritten rules. There are people who cheat, people who are unscrupulous, and people who make their own rules. But the majority does play fair. And what about politics, ‘the last resort of the scoundrel’? Well, here also we had better follow some rules, otherwise we run the risk of getting wiped out.

What would happen if every candidate in the Assembly election behaved and spoke like V S Achuthanandan?

At election time, Minister G Sudhakaran is selling his poetic CD through Consumerfed outlets. Minister Thomas Isaac reportedly received 17 crores from abroad through banking channels in violation of so many rules.

An LIC employee, Sunilraj, (of Kottayam Chingavanam) complained to Pinarayi Vijayan of sexual harassment of his wife by the CPM Local Committee Secretary, Advocate Vijayan. Very soon the lifeless body of Sunilraj was found on a railway track. Both Pinarayi and Achuthanandan were too busy to comment.

The Marxists surreptitiously joined hands with the Jamat-e-Islami, which they once described as extremist and anti-national. Perhaps they are trying to fill the vacuum left by the PDP and Abdul Nasser Madhani. They also made seat adjustments with the BJP, which hitherto was their sworn enemy. We have a peculiar phenomenon in Malampuzha, where there is no BJP candidate to trouble Achuthanandan.

I guess for some people, all is fair in love, poetry, finance and politics.

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