Monday, March 03, 2008

Ibobi Vs Dissidents' War needs a final soteriology from the Centre

By : Yumnam Chaoba Singh/IFP

"There is often a considerable difference between the general will and will of all, the former aims at the common interest, the latter aims at private interest and is only a sum of particular wills. But if we take away from these wills the various particular interests which conflict with each other, what remains as the sum of difference is general will." - ROUSSEAU

Our egocentric and choleric MLAs needs to understand if not earlier in their heads that general will was rational and not self-contradictory. It thus gave us unity in the sense that it was indivisible because once divided it will not be called "general will", but only sectional will. Since general will was based on reason, wisdom and experience and thought abut the good of all, it was not to sway with the time but was permanent. It cannot altered and is pure. Even though it may be dominated by other wills for sometime yet in the ultimate analysis this will dominate.

Shri O. Ibobi Singh, chief minister, the name itself is a rare palindromic word like 'madam' in English version. What a lucky guy Mr. Ibobi is even by his name who is again accoloded by his chair. However, at the beginning of his political innings as chief minister (2nd term), Shri Ibobi appears to have burdened perdurable pangs inspite of chuckling in taking up the qaunlet thrown upon him by the deprived congress MLAs who are mongering at Delhi for months together (3/4months) prostrating at the feet of saviour, Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, congress supremo and other acolytes to have divested the Morris chair of Shri Ibobi Singh. As the fractured team was not guided by an individuated leader at his own will as well as there was no pluripotent members to have pleased/invoked the half-sleep supremo and also from want of the way in which they have to use pernickety devices to her, appears no final denovement on the card till date amounts to flogging a dead horse while the loser goes to the society as a whole.

Again, Ibobi is waiting to see what fate in store from the fort of dissidents and his fearless courage is tossing between joy and care. But the more they try to jostle his chair the more it appears to have tightened by clamping with a big ministerial head (a turn coat) and a few piece (remnant) of screw-leked MLAs. Here recalls a Manipuri saying - 'shamu yathin inkhatlakpada mange thengu yaoibana Keidouni' - (literally, a gemmy mall (tamarind) may fail to break down an offshooting tusk of an elephant). The corruption charge levelled by the dissidents against Ibobi rapping over the knuckles without evidential documents which is also not made available to the press is a sign of demand for power only. But unfettered authority automatically invites dangers any time whether it may be either 'X' or 'Y'. However, it is of the opinion that the present poking of Ibobi's nose by the dissidents to catch him upon the hip is too early but it may remain a great lesson for those chief ministers to come in.

Yes, not only in the case of MLAs but also even their electors of any given constituency want 'Ministerial power' rather than 'MLA power' because the more power the more money it brings and the more money it can buy the more power vice-versa. But unless, we see before we leap the place where we have to stand or reasons in mind or maintain powers according to one's personality and social standing, one may lead to self-degeneration any time, consequently a social embarrassment at all.

Regarding power (here lust for money), here recalls how greedy "Pahom" died for a piece of land, a legendary character depicted in the English literature that runs the head "How much land does a man need?" Again, if all the men cannot be right, there might be a wrong ones. So that who will be held responsible for emergence of leadership change (chief ministership)? If it is taken for granted, the root cause of the present Ibobi-Vs-Dissidents is due to non-rotational allotment of ministerial berths (chairs) among the refractory MLAs alternately which is also more or less related to Anti-defection law and downsizing of ministers enacted by the parliament. For the present impasse, is there any reasons why shri Ibobi should not be held responsible for the breakaway MLAs? For the end of justice, from this moment onward, any existing or incoming chief ministers needs to maintain reshuffling of ministers for the maximum MLAs in his capacity as chief minister - one at the beginning of the first ministry and the another (second) at the middle (half-end of the 5 years) so that no MLAs will ride, roughshod over the feelings of a reigning chief minister.

In the mean time many non-ruling MLAs including crestfallen political Netas are boxing the ears of the ruling congress baselining on corruption, insurgency, law and order doldrums which has been no more a new phenomenon since last many decades which they could not solve while in the seats of power as they turned deaf ear in hunting hush-money and plundering public money, spending time in the easy armed-chair with legs crossed and shaking thighs. These verbiage are the second nature of every politicians but even a minister or an MLA who committed any social blunder has no courage to make a clean breast of their quilt. Then how will they solve any grave issues in the state? Thanks of the people would go to the campers at Delhi if their demand was one of the burning state issues. It is time for them to think over at their own issue if it is to be in sostenuto and also the demand is for chair only under a headless rag-tag mission.

One may know that the hole and corner of Shri Ibobi who habituated in harvesting a bonanza in cutting "percentage", bulk sharing of quotas in any recruitment procedure, but it appears to be an open secret. No one including media-persons can make it public with ne plus ultra with dossiers. If the dissidents are not in a position to pull their punches against the fortified regime of Ibobi, it will be better to take their heels for life otherwise it will amount to public mockery which is unwarrantable at all, even it may be familial embitterment or dust-up in the congress wings.

As heard, in December, 2007, on the behest of the congress supremo, Prithiviraj Chauhan, general secretary, North-East states come to Imphal and made fall in line the deprived and dejected MLAs, then he cross-examined them one by one whether they were walking the chalk line. Presumably the recorded list (datum line) would, no doubt, be in the hands of congress supremo but unlotted as yet. Seeing it, Ibobi by virtue of his status and political gimmicks wooed Devendra, second in rank by parbuckling his fleshy portfolios in anticipation maintaining oneness to keep the wolf from the door chancer said "If the gold rust, what shall iron do?" Likewise when the head is corrupt, the followers are doomed. Only when there is no political chicaneries on the part of a public head all will seem to be alright.

Again, Frederick Engels reasoned "Realism to my mind, implies, besides the truth of detail, the truthful presentation of typical characters under the typical circumstances". All the elected representatives of any social stratum have to conceive the characteristics of sobriety and maturity. The former represents vigour, zeal, energy and idealism and the latter represents his sober, mature and practical character. Always read the ambience of the people that cannot be separated from each other till one's last farewell to this mundanity rather than the chair made of the innocent people.

Let us imagine, how a particular mishap (her change of leadership) evokes two different reactions is best illustrated by the statement of a great statesman. Ironically as and, when the shoe pinches the self it is poignant and painful but when it hurts somebody else, the resultant comment is mild and casual. When a similar fate overtakes us, we beat our breasts and make a shrieking show of our depressed state of mind. Therefore, objectivity on the part of a leader is a different discipline to cultivate and practise.

According to Aristotle "corrective justice is a type of justice which prevents people from encroaching upon the rights of his fellowmen. He believed that it relates to voluntary and commercial transactions like hire, sale and furnishing security etc. with involuntary actions involving aggression on life, property, honour and freedom". But in politics, numbers can play a new power game as all the MLAs are opportunists like weather -cock. Hence the new coinage "No one can put a full stop in politics". If so, is going leeward by the dissidents for change of leader at this critical juncture of murky law and order problems to receive a fresh lease of political mileage hitting the nail on the head?

Metaphorically, it may not be wrong when we say that Ibobi's regime (ministerial aides or associationists) are like the composition of a mechanical a number of ingredients are brought together. They are mixed up but they do not lose their individual properties. They still exist as separate identities. On the other hand, in a chemical compound, the different ingredients are no separate identities. They lose their respective properties and fuse together to creation while mixture is merely a bringing together of a number of a separate elements. Being helpless with local mountebanks Ibobi sought, the succour of a top Alchemist but appears to have blessed and he may be in a position to unite the incompatible elements. The Alchemist, so far we know, was none other than congress supremo.

Undoubtedly, as conceived the jumping of the congress dissidents on the band wagon for change of leader of their own by ousting Shri Ibobi high and dry from the centre appears to have skated on thin ice while the congress supremo plays a Fabian policy by twisting around her little finger to have closed the political drama indicating to lift no finger from the dissident side.

In conclusion, the congress supremo well aware how the Manipur land lies and being on the upper crust and chief of administration kindly order a final "Fait accompli" to one of the either parties to run the government without hullaballoo.

The writer is a Retired Asstt. Private Secy. (Edn/S)

IFP

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