Politician must shed snobbery

There must not be any place for snobbery in public life in a democratic country like India. Every one is equal here atleast on paper. Politicians of any hue can not enjoy more rights than an ordinary citizen of the country. But these days, especially among politicians, a tendency has increased enormously that they are above the law. But it is among those whose upbringing has been rural, feudal set-up, and mind is narrow and thought is short-sighted often try to impose their supremacy on society. Former Union Miister and BJP MP Shahnawaz Hussain was scheduled to go to US for participating in UN General Assembly meeting as an Indian Parliamentarian, but he was not allowed visas due to some documentary lapses. He made the very small thing a mountain out of a mole, saying that he was not given visas because of his Muslim name only to get media glare. He expected the government of India should take it up with the US as a matter of prestige and express its concerns of his visas issue. While fact of the matter is that why should the nation be concerned over his visas denial by the US, when the fault is his on own part. Has the Indian nation express concern ever over the denial of visas to any common citizen of the country? Mr. Shahnawaz Hussain must think that he is not above and is like ordinary citizen when the question of rights and duties come into the picture. It is short-sightedness to expect the entire nation to make a hue and cry over his denial of visas by the US. In US all are equal before law not only on paper but in practice also. US president enjoys the same right as the ordinary citizen in that country. That is why there is no practice there of VIP status. Whereas in India some are above others. Humble nature of our former president APJ Kalam was reflected when he was made to undergo all security screening process at the airport by US civil aviation officialsand he made no noise. But when even ordinary politicians are made to undergo all screening process, they make a lot of hue and cry and compare his sreening to the prestige of the nation. A day before yesterday, BJP president Rajnath Singh’s Chattered Plane’s airpath was lightened by hundred of jeeps and motor cars to fly at Dumka airport in Jharkhand. He was visiting there for holding public meetings. Under these circumstance, there are chances of mishaps. If anything untowards had happened, its pilot and crew member were immediately held responsible and punished for the act about which no body has heard in the history of the world that the plane took off in this manner. These acts of politicians reflect how they make mockery of any law and norms. The govt must initiate action against the politician , and not the pilots,under whose influence they would have violated the flying norms. It is an understood thing. So, the government must take some steps in true spirit and letter of the constitution that could check the growing tendency among politicians that they above ordinary citizens.