WHERE THE PM IS LOSING HIS PLOT

WHERE THE PM IS LOSING HIS PLOT

The PM lacks in conviction in what he speaks because he has to manage too may roles in one person and the roles change every day letting him no respite. He must realise that there are limits to his performance which when attempted to be exceeded devitalises him, dilutes him and renders him unconvincing and sterile. His speeches have long been serially insipid, uninspiring and tailored to suit audiences without the fire of idealism that catches the imagination of the public. Winning elections is one thing and becoming the messiah of the masses quite another which is what his ideological mentors and he himself must have expected of him once upon a time. But that has sadly backfired owing to his adopting a lavish lifestyle with dandy-dressing and centring all attention on his person as if this is less a democracy and more a modern monarchy of sorts. This personalisation of a people's democracy is detrimental to its health and principles ought to take precedence over personality. 

Whatever one does leaves its mark on the soul and so has it been on our PM. The initial fire is gone owing to continuous change of roles and what remains now is a shadow of the original idealistic man, the man with an ideological mission, now much diluted, much more distracted by diverse adjustments which necessarily attend the ministerial head of a nation as vast and diverse as India. The PM must return to his ideological roots to remain relevant now and in the future. Else, he will have lost his plot for good. This is how stars rise and fall.

Written by Sugata Bose