Politicians must mend their ways

In most of the democratic world the politicians run their election campaigns through the media these days. The information technology has revolutionised the world. The electorate now watch politicians delivering their speeches on radio and TV while sitting comfortably in their drawing rooms or lying in their beds. Not so in this country, however, where the political leaders still fancy taking out long processions and holding public meetings in open grounds. Obviously, such a mode of public address system is not only expensive but is also fraught with danger to the life and limb of the candidates contesting the polls as they expose themselves physically in the highly charged political atmosphere in which anything can happen which is beyond the control of the law and order enforcing agencies.
It has been observed that our political parties have set up their respective students’ unions also in the educational institutions which are used by them whenever they want to pressurise and blackmail the government on any issue through students’power. They bankroll them and bring the students on the streets for demonstrations against the government. This is a very dangerous political game as, more often than not, students get maimed or killed in encounters with the law and order enforcing agencies. Most of the parents simply don’t that their children’s attention is distracted from their studies as they don’t want that their hard earned money being spent by them on their education go down the drain.
The politicians block the main highways at the drop of hat for highlighting any grievances which they might have against the authorities without realising that by doing so they put to inconvenience the general public including the old and the infirm as well as the patients requiring urgent medical attention . By doing so they only incur the wrath and displeasure of the common man. Isn’t it a proper time when the political parties join their heads and decide to discard these highly wrong practices which are only bringing a bad name to them?