Why do we believe in publicity? Are we idiots?

In a stunning revelation it seems that there exists a Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians. Most of us ordinary folk would think that we urgently need a committee to protect our human tights from parliamentarians. Apparently, there were 320 attacks in 43 countries in 2015. Africa topped the list with 36% of cases while Asia came second with 29%. Two-thirds, or 71%, of all cases are by opposition politicians. Not surprising, is it? When 186 out of 543 members of the Lok Sabha have serious criminal charges against them. We are not talking parking tickets or failure to return library books. We are talking murder, kidnapping, robbery and rape. However, there was an attack on our most esteemed Chief Minister of Delhi when a woman threw ink on him, to protest against his policies. Since he is not a Scandinavian blonde we cannot see any sign of ink on him but his henchmen reacted furiously to this 'attempted murder'. " They may also kill people because they cannot stand the success of the odd-even scheme and AAP's popularity among the masses," fumed one henchman. No one has ever heard of anyone dying from a few drops of ink and surely being such a popular leader of the Aam Aadmi, which means ordinary people, he should allow such a harmless protest? Not a chance. The woman has been released on bail, on a bond of Rs 10,000. If he is so popular why has he spent Rs 600 million on his own publicity out of Rs 5.26 billion kept aside for this purpose. With so much of our taxes used for bluffing people there was nothing left for cleaning the storm drains of Delhi, which led to a Dengue epidemic, with 10,683 cases and 41 deaths. Why such fury over a minor incident? Because henchmen depend on the leader to protect them from the law, while the power of the leader comes from intimidation of the people, by the henchmen. In Bengal this has got out of hand so that no one wants to invest in the state. The Chief Minister says that she has been promised Rs 2.5 trillion worth of new investments but she has received proposals, not actual investments, of just Rs 68.71 billion. The Chief Minister's protection of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh led to a mob of 250,000 attacking a police station in Malda district. Terrorists from Bangladesh have established bomb factories in Bengal and are now planning attacks on the Republic Day parade in Delhi. The condition of UP is dire. Like in Delhi, the Chief Minister of UP bought a flattering advertisement in the Financial Times. How much taxpayer money was wasted we do not know. Indian politicians must think that the citizens are imbeciles to fall for blatantly false publicity. They maybe right, because they keep winning elections.