Sun Suniyo ve yaara....Koena Mitra hain yaara...

This seems to be latest tune sung by the Jarkhand CM, Madhu Koda. "OK...So what?," you may question. For those of you who are "bollywoodically (or is bollywoodally? whatever...) backward", she is the new sensation amongst the "item girls" who forayed into Hindi cinema. It's a pity some of you say she's an actress but that's an argument for another day(No disrespect to her. She's good at what she does<wink>).

"To sex up his government’s image, he has roped in item girl Koena Mitra as the brand ambassador for Jharkhand."

I recently found a link which has live streaming for some of the Indian TV channels. All excited, I click the CNN-IBN link. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard this news. Now, I'm not an ingenious person when it comes to politics but even my nescient mind sent tickles down my spine.

I couldn't suppress a smile when it occurred to me that the ruling party was trying to lure (a right word i guess, for the act seems to treat the coalition parties as wolves waiting to howl at damsels and come wagging their tails and hanging their tongues) other parties to form a coalition government because the existing coalition, the congress, backed out.

Maybe it isn't funny. This must be some guileful and shrewd plan by the politician. He is after all running a state, isn't he? "Let me google him up," I say to myself. One of the first articles that comes up is an interesting and humorous one.

"The Jharkhand CM, in the course of a speech, had mixed up the names of Sonia and Indira Gandhi, not once or twice, but throughout the speech."

This was definitely more than a tickle :-) . "Stomach-holding laughter" is a closer second.

Again, as I said, I'm not a guru when it comes to politics and am not qualified to judge anyone. But this seemed to concur with my existing notion/opinion that the politicians should be educationally qualified. I tried to find some more articles about this dude and there was an interesting one called "Decoding Koda." It portrays that he's a young and aggressive person who made it into politics without a Godfather and won the elections to become the first independent chief minister who doesn't belong to any political party.

I was trying to dig more into his educational background but couldn't find much. And here, as abrupt as it may seem, I end this blog (I sure will come back, at a leisure time, with more research to further augment my point). Waiting for you guys to contradict/justify my conception that we need candidates who are politically smart and politically educated. (I use 'politically' twice because both the terms, smart and educated, are independent and can be either conjunctional or completely disjoint)