{"id":62624,"date":"2019-03-19T00:03:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=62624"},"modified":"2019-03-19T00:03:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:33:24","slug":"bag-of-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/03\/19\/bag-of-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bag of tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nPolitics is an art. All that said to be true, indeed people have been gullible enough so much so that that we tend to be blown away by the face value, tribal and religious affinity when we elect our leaders. We are much delighted by the hollow promises that they pull out from their bag of tricks.<br \/>\nThe festival of democracy is here. It\u2019s the quintessential feature being the right to exercise our franchise.<br \/>\nSo reinvigorate thy political metabolism, as it\u2019s high time that we straighten our conscience and strengthen our political values and vote diligently. It\u2019s time that we vote for a change. Self-proclaimed leaders who have taken us for a ride need to be electorally bedridden.<br \/>\nPolitical machoism of the self-proclaimed, self-obsessed, and self-glorified leader should be vitiated by political masculinity of the popular voice made effective by the exercise of our franchise. It time to give it back Arunachal. The epithet of \u201cLand of Kusi Kusi\u201d, \u201cDhulinagar\u201d as such should be a thing of past. \u201cVIP\u201d culture where they construct road only for the minister\u2019s visit, only around \u201cVIP\u201d centres should be rejected by the \u201cVery Intelligent People (real VIP)\u201d. They must be taught that do not have the power to rule but only the authority to govern given to them by mundane people like us.<br \/>\nJohn F Kennedy aptly said that the ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. Bad leaders are elected by good citizens who do not vote. Let\u2019s save democracy in Arunachal from political casteism and elitism by casting our vote and by voting prudently.<br \/>\n<strong>Sincerely,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>David Koyu,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Itanagar<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, Politics is an art. All that said to be true, indeed people have been gullible enough so much so that that we tend to be blown away by the face value, tribal and religious affinity when we elect our leaders. We are much delighted by the hollow promises that they pull out from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}