Three players are engaging each other in a national game. The land’s masses constitute the major party, diverse as they are on every conceivable count, not to ignore the languages they use to express their thoughts and opinions about others, unmindful of however unsavoury their ways of making their presence noticed in public domain. The second party is the administration, inappropriately called government making laws in the form of Gram Panchayats, Town Panchayats, Urban Local Bodies including Municipalities as well as Corporations, State Legislative Assemblies as well as State Legislative Councils (barring seven States) and the country’s Parliament comprising Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. All these bodies comprise members elected by eligible voters in addition to a few nominated members. The third party in the game, being an important wing of the government, is the law implementing machinery, mainly the Police force. Now, the stage is set for the game to kickstart and which players grab the place on the victory stand is no big deal to guess. For the uninformed, the winner is the mass of land, majority of whom don’t care a hoot about the laws. But the other two parties don’t seem to be giving up.
There being many events in the aforementioned threesome game, for the purpose of this column, the garbage game is taken for illustration, only because it is hogging attention across the country.
