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The Congress party takes for granted a small but significant section of its vote bank. This is the segment that votes strictly on nostalgic factors. This is an ossified, politically non-vocal community that fasts on 2nd October. For them time stands still in the pre-independence era. Sure, there are problems, but their deliverance will eventually come. They hope for an Avatar of the Mahatma or Chachaji. They don't even have to read the Organizer to find out just how much of a departure the party has made from their mythical world. Mythical because much of their perception was really formed by a state controlled media and a state controlled education system. They just need to see who contests from Nehru's constituency these days. Unfortunately, this group stubbornly resists change, since the support for the party is tied to their self-image. Divested of religion and any other sense of morality, they constantly need to seek solace in the words of past leaders of the Congress party. Captive to the sound bites of a new generation of unscrupulous leaders characterized by boundless avarice, greed and gluttony, they exhibit unmistakable symptoms of Stockholm syndrome. In Amar Singh we see a last big hope that this vote bank will finally receive the requisite jolt that can awaken them from their stupor. What was until now confined to the dust plains of primitive UP, can potentially come to the political center-stage. Once it does, it ain't gonna be pretty. We already talked about startling facets of the man's persona. Well, here is more. A reader alerted us about a phone-tapping scandal involving Amar Singh that happened in 2006. Apparently some opportunistic elements (at the time Amar Singh alleged even Congress and indeed the party was most vocal in demanding Singh's arrest) tapped Amar Singh's phone and recorded several conversations, not only with industrialists but with Bollywood actresses. Some of these conversations were incriminating in nature and referred to ongoing court cases against the politician. Funny thing is, the media never broadcast these tapes. They developed cold feet and allowed Singh enough time to get a Supreme court stay order. Here is an interesting bit from the tapes (allegedly a conversation between Amar Singh and actress Bipasha Basu): Amar: : But I will make some time.Bit too much information on the effects of aging on his anatomical parts. CNN-IBN's Rajdeep Sardesai writes: As our camera recorded the private party , I asked Amar Singh how he reconciled the role of neta by day and party animal by night: "I am not a hypocrite," he shot back, with a familiar grin, "If Amitabh and Anil Ambani are my friends, why should I hide it from the world? If I play Holi with Shilpa Shetty, why should I be ashamed of it!" [link]Certainly there is nothing wrong in social interactions, but it is a bit disconcerting that various references to Bollywood female stars is almost like a central theme to the man's character. No wonder he is siding heavily with Anil Ambani, who has recently made huge investments into the entertainment business. Perhaps Rajdeep finds it cutesy, we are not so amused. Amar Singh's proximity to industrialists was described by Rajdeep Sardesai as a likely new chapter in Indian history, a bridge between corporate India and politics. When BJP leaders drop any hint of capitalistic reforms, the usual response is putting up a front page story with a picture of a hungry child. Such is the nature of political discourse in the country today. Scarcely a few days into the new alliance, Amar Singh has already made contemptuous statements about a Supreme Court judge (or as Ramachandra Guha would say, started fixing institutions one by one). We just hope that Congress realizes the risk in letting these elements into its sanctum sanctorum.
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