Mahatma Gandhi v Present-day politicians

Immersion of the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi after sixty years of his death can be summed up in the following words: “The handful of ashes was all that was there of the Mahatma Gandhi surviving sixty years after his assassination.” This is the crux of the prevailing political ethos in India. We, Indians believe in hero-worship but shy to follow the ideology of the hero we worship. By putting up statues on road-crossings, naming the institutions after names of the national leaders, we think, we have done our duty to revered one.
Political parties irrespective of their hue are power-hungry-overtly or covertly. In such a scenario, their sole aim remains to grab power and power comes with numbers in democratic set up. Criminals help the parties to brow-beat the really deserving candidates and in the bargain, get themselves also elected to the august body which was once adorned by the personalities like Acharya Kirpalani, Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, Shyama Prashad Mukherjee etc.
There is dearth of leaders and proliferation of politicians who never follow what they say. Large number of issues of national importance are pending because the present politicians’ future will get compromised if such issues are resolved or attended to.