The useless circus which is the general elections has come round again. The Congress agenda is the same old same old lies about getting rid of poverty which they have no intention of doing. After all without the naked aam aadmi they have no agenda so poverty is essential to the Congress party's survival. The BJP is led by a very old man who would kill to be prime minister before he dies. His sole strategy has been to oppose everything the government has done including the nuclear deal which was initiated by the BJP itself. He is going to lose and probably choke on his bile. The regional parties are irrelevant. Parties like DMK or TDP are relevant only to tamil or telugu speakers and have no relevance in the rest of the country. Unfortunately they will hold the balance of power and will be able to barter their support for lucrative posts which will provide them with the power to loot the exchequer. The highly successful 20:20 cricket tournament called the Indian Premier League is supposed to be held during April but the government is doing its utmost to get it cancelled. Rumour is that the politicians are afraid that no one turn up to vote if cricket matches coincide with polling days. It is also possible that politicians want to blackmail the IPL to get a share of the money it will generate and have been told to jump into the putrid gutter they crawled out of. It is impossible to see how we will ever get rid of the filth that now pollutes our lives.