India goes to vote again, another money flaunting, muscle flexing, hoodwinking,backstabbing,booth capturing circus is about to unfold. A new set of men and women shall be chosen to govern the country.Early nineties saw a then considered to be the baap of all political showmanship, BJP's rathyatra.The obvious agenda behind such a yatra or journey was to whip up the Hindu sentiments in the name of Ram.A vernacular leftist daily had a gem of a poem in this context which i translate here- Ram has re-incarnated in the form of Advani, this can be safely assumed, if the vote bank goes to BJP, the country's reigns will be in the hands of Hanuman! Both the avatar and the ape god reference here, are to demean the essence of the juggernaut which was unleashed in the country. The said party did finally win, but a lot later. And not Hanuman but A B Vajpayee was at the helm, incidentally the five years of his party's rule were puntuated with hiccups like Godhra, Kargil and Lahore summit( Advani almost looked ready to confer the Padmashri on Musharraf). And then, a whirlwind rally by Sonia saw the tides turn in favour of the congress again.The rule of the UPA was a bumpy, rocky ride capped with the recent recession.Two ideologicaly polarized parties, two different regimes, same unsatisfactory results. Not to talk about some forgotten piece of fiction called election manifestos.In India we choose not able leaders with vision, but personalities with narrow agenda.The messy,often bloodstained regional politicos, steeped in black money are promoted to the echoleons of power at the centre, or else given enough lollies in their state itself. Parties are willing to partner with anybody who has a seat to his/her name.The coalition resulting of such deals are multiheaded monsters allowed to run the country shamelessly, the voters clearly having shunned each one of them.In the run up to the general elections,a more disgusting result of such coalitions is surfacing, the blunt, selfish, egoistical leaders of regional parties are openly flaunting their drooling tongue and wagging tail, prime ministerial aspirations exposed. Just about anybody can pin their hopes in a lok sabha election for the top job. The top job is that easy. It is akin to a plump piece of meat hanging on a thread. Any bully can snatch it and be promptly named our next PM. It happens only in India.There is absence of logic in the mandates, reason is conspicous by its absence in the coalitions(adultry is the norm of the day), a single stable leadership is missing from the thick of things, India is about to vote for its next puppet PM. For the politicians, of the politicians,by the politicians. Thumb rules.