26 March,2010 09:51 AM IST | | Prahlad Nanjappa
Kumaraswamy finally came out with it. He sees nothing wrong in handing felons a ticket from his party.
"They could reform in the future" is his explanation. "So why not give them a chance?"
There's nothing wrong in his logic at all. In fact, it could be a revolutionary social experiment. Let all those overcrowded jails loose. Let's vote in all the murderers and rapists and looters into positions of power. In fact, sentences could be passed awarding each criminal a political post, depending on his crime.
The entire state Cabinet will be people who are scum of the earth, and just one step short of hanging from the rope (Let's desist from jokes about not having to make changes with the current crop).
The BBMP elections that are currently in the thick of being campaigned for should have reservations for womenu00a0-- who've killed a couple of people in their day. Government babus, petty officials, the whole red-light flashing Ambassador brigade will be drawn from pickpocket, chain-snatching and mobile phone-filching brethren. Of course they'll reform: they'll graduate from pick-pocketing, chain-snatching and phone-filching to greater achievements like land-grabbing and bribe-pocketing.
Swami Nityananda (the new chastised, reformed version of the saffron-derobed godman who famously claimed he was in a trance when he enjoyed carnal acts) will be appointed the spiritual advisor to HDK, even while holding the important post of Head of the Cine Artists Welfare Association. The Nithari killers, the infamous Dandupalya gang, that starlet who killed her boyfriend in Mumbai, and all the most-dreaded underworld dons will be moved to Bangalore to sign up with the JD(S).
Kasab can finally exchange his jail wardens for a minister's Z-class security as he takes over in his new role of Karnataka's External Affairs Minister. Now reformed, he will build special bilateral ties between Bangalore's IT Industry and the Al-Qaeda's Communication and Arsenal Heads.
Reformatory homes unfortunately, would go out of work. However, the Vidhana Soudha will be open for business.
Really, Kumaraswamy is such a forward-thinking man. By his yardstick, his entire family needs to be back in the highest echelons of power.u00a0
