Source: ET
Politicians need to have a thick skin and no spine to survive and thrive anywhere in the world. I pity the lot we suffer in this country. Most of them have begun behaving oversensitive regarding their image these days. During off the record meetings, they take no time to turn delirious and start holding the “recklessly independent media,” especially the electronic part of it, exclusively responsible for projecting them as icons of everything bad under the sun. “You never dare to take on the permanent government of civil and military oligarchs with such ferocity,” they complain.
No doubt, some of their grievances are justified, but tell me the last time you ever found any of our top politicians taking concrete initiatives and making concerted efforts to correct the collective image of his or her community. The national assembly, for example, is a directly elected house of our parliament. Our representatives can only establish their worth and relevance by actively participating in its proceedings and just consider what happened there Friday.