Time to Wag Tails Politicians

Now the 2^nd term election is about a few months, people must have some qualifications of a right person in their minds. That’s good.  Bhutan was in the middle of an enigma in 2008. There were instances of choosing the wrong person. Or, was it because of the less choice?

I write this because I am reminded of a bad example of how our government can be irresponsible in choosing the right ministers for the Ministry. I am lifting an old example from The Journalist newspaper (13/6/10, on page 5),the confession made by Health Minister, Zanglay Drukpa.  He said to the paper, “I came with an open mind since I knew nothing about health.” I laughed at his frankness but at the same time felt ashamed.  From there on, I knew there was something artificial in the function of our system. There are many ‘hotch-potch Dashos’ like him. It is like the right person for the wrong job. There are scores of others in the present batch of the elected members who have joined the politics for the love of power and money. Some of them turned out to be worse than statues, stealthily, filling up their stomach. As they don’t speak a word in the National Assembly.  Some came out to be surviving with lip services and faked promises.

Bhutan didn’t know much of these would happen in the 1^st election. Now people know; there are talks in every small gathering and sorts like that about choosing a leader of good heart, responsible, capable, understanding, etc. Politicization is important, therefore. People must by now also know that the individual mustn’t decide the candidate, but, rather it is the responsibility of people coming together and deciding on their representative. Democracy is sometimes described as communities of people coming together, and it images many voices pouring into a unified whole. Democracy should permeate the world beyond politics, making itself felt in the ways people think, speak, work, fight, and even make forte.  No nepotism, no relations, no bribery, nothing, but selecting through collective decision would have a good leader. Because it’s for the greater goodness and well-being of the whole, not an individual.

Coming back to the right person, right job; the subject matter is very important; every job demands specialization in a specific subject. One cannot be a jack of all trades. An untrained person suddenly cannot declare as a carpenter. An educationist cannot become a doctor.  An accountant takes his/her profession because his/her profession is professional. But when it comes to society like ours, everyone wags tail in front of money( and barks back nonsensically to their own people) and the post, not necessarily thinking about their area and the outcome, which as a result becomes our government buoyant and susceptible, where everyone makes the bulb with no knowledge of it to light but nobody succeed.  Because of this, we had so many problems in Health Ministry, I think. This type of malfunction which pulls our nation shouldn’t be repeated as the society depends upon them. And in turn, they depend on society.