The art of dirty politics

Politicians seem to forget that citizens are not their subjects and the country is not their fiefdom.

The exchange of secret correspondence between the incumbent prime minister and the chairman of the Maoist Centre with the chairman of the Millennium Challenge Corporation shows absolute ineptness on the part of our politicians in governing forthrightly. These covert actions do not seem in any way to represent the interest of the nation and are a blot on democratic governance. The leaking of the correspondence not just exposes the politicians’ duplicity but also their fondness for carrying out such secretive dealings. On the one hand, they are always colluding among themselves to achieve their vested political interests, and on the other, their intention is to hoodwink the public to achieve those aims.