Of disorientation and attendance at a political rally by Puneet Rajhans

Of disorientation and attendance at a political rally

It has been discovered with alarming regularity that post political rally most of the crowd looks to be somewhat disoriented and it takes time for them to get into the groove.Though they are prodded to reach the venue well before the appointed hour it is the political party supremo who takes his/her sweet time to reach the podium. As a result when the rally gets over, some are exhausted/excited enough to spend the next two to three days in the vicinity of the rally ground. Post three day outing they return to their homes with the belief that they would be called soon to mark their presence for another proportionate rally where food, lodging and transportation would be taken care of. And the probability increases as the poll season catches on.

What about the trainwallahs and how disfigured and dislocated they look. The reading of the train janata suggests that when they are about to deboard they look to be disheartened,dismembered and dislocated. As long as they are assured that the train would take two nights and three days to reach its destination, few bother to break their side of the story of the travails they went through when they were reporting for work or simply dozing off at their residence.

The long time spent inside the train makes them feel like Kings and Queens where they could hold anyone to ransom for the inadequate food they got and inadequate water they preserved for their post train battle at home and office. Brandishing the weapon of mass destruction (seeking restoration of consumer rights through complaint book)they blast everyone on the train for the services on offer. Once they are assured that their destination is about to come they turn to meek entities perhaps resigned to the fate where they would be blasted for incompetent reports they would share with their overpaid bosses and inhospitable welcome they would be showered with while reaching their place of stay. These 40 hrs of train journey probably keeps them miles away from the inhospitable climate they would be greeted once they reach their place of stay. The agony gets multiplied if the place they report for work and get paid has bosses and compatriots who are not only physically starved but comptetent enough to launch physical assault. In the shape of things that have been unfolding it has been discovered that a large number of politically inclined men and women whose tryst with politics has been next to nil have been spending long nights and days at these venues of political rally with the sole belief that things may change better for them. They look at these political party gathering as a prospective chance where the party stalwart could chance upon them and take them under their fold with the belief that sh/he is a prospective material for his party's prospects. So if you chance upon a large number of men and women leaving their place of residence/work and marking their attendance to different political rallies it is done with the firm belief that change is round the corner. After all who doesn't like to have free lodging and food in the times of distress we live in.

As for the Tatkal scheme of railways, it has precisely been drawn up with the belief that political rallies keep happenning round the year in different corners of the country and there is a big tribe disoriented by the happennings at their place who seek comfort and peace in these rallies. Tatkal ensures a speedy and safe passage to these destinations as well as meeting of minds where more than two and not less than hundred share their side of the story on the trials and tribulations of everyday living.