Pawan Kalyan's much anticipated speech during launch of new political outfit, Jana Sena, has turned out to be a high on emotional quotient and low on vision.
Firstly kudos to Pawan for coming out and expressing his opinions on present day politics. His honest approach is laudable. However has it been limited to mere expression and commentary on politics, it would have been good. But it is launch of a political party as well.
A political party needs vision, agenda and manifesto for people apart from organization structure. If you leave them, then it is not a political party. It can be an NGO or Society or Trust.
Pawan's speech has stirred emotional chords primarily regarding Telangana issue and women safety. His comments are merely an echo of what other political leaders and commoners were saying for quite sometime. There is absolutely nothing new except for his personal issues entangled with Telangana issue.
As for women safety, like everybody else he has also blamed political system. His speech lacks any specifics about how JanaSena is going to deal with it. If he is going to create a special women safety force, then he will run a parallel govt (e.g., Maoists protecting poor tribals) which is contradictory to the national stability which he has strongly advocated.
Pawan has not given any specific solutions regarding the problems he has addressed. May be he will deal with them in another speech or interview. The problem with having another political party in the fray is that it will give a fractured verdict in the elections.
The stability of the state which has so much stressed upon is going be in problem because of his party. Throughout his speech, he has mentioned about ideology being prime requisite for political leadership but did not reveal any of his ideology. Is he left or right winged? Since he opposes Congress, which has firmly established as middle path, we can safely assume he is going for extreme politics. But what is it?? Pawan has undermined the sacrifices of BSF, RAW, Police force etc by claiming he will be the first one to sacrifice his life for national integrity (incase he dies, God forbid).
Pawan has admonished the culture of relatives of present MLAs and MPs getting into politics. On the same token, isn't Pawan a beneficiary of the same culture?? Like old saying - Be the change you want to see in the system.
In a country having reservation system, we can hardly talk about meritocracy as the most important criterion for success in certain fields. Also Pawan cannot talk about positions of CM, PM etc as nothing for him. Its like a beggar saying Merc is nothing for him. Pawan has unwittingly opened doors for criticism.
Undoubtedly Pawan's foray into politics is with good intention but lacks any vision or substance. Playing to galleries will get you whistles from the crowd but politics is not about becoming a hero (ask Chiru for clarity). Finally Pawan need not merge his party in Congress (Ganges river?) as it will evaporate in thin air..
Written By Seshadri Reddy
