A politician in Bihar received kicked out of the meeting for seven months simply because he made enjoyable of the Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar. Sounds excessive, proper? The Supreme Courtroom thought so too. It dominated that this punishment was method too harsh and unfair. In actual fact, the Election Fee was even planning a brand new election to switch him earlier than the court docket stepped in and stopped it.
The court docket did say that the politician’s joke was impolite and inappropriate, however ought to that actually result in expulsion? Politicians throughout the nation say far worse issues, particularly in opposition to ladies, and nobody appears to care.
The true drawback? Politics is dropping its humorousness. Up to now, leaders would tease one another, cartoonists would make enjoyable of them, and everybody had amusing. However now, many politicians act like they’ll’t be joked about in any respect. Some even put cartoonists in jail! As an alternative of being so delicate, leaders ought to be taught to take a joke and battle again with a fair funnier one. In any case, one of the simplest ways to cope with a nasty joke is with a greater one!
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Views expressed above are the writer’s personal.
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