Politics

The idea appeared completely crazy. But the turn of the events in past 24 hours have dictated us to accept a  new reality. We are now citizens of a country run by the chief justice of the supreme court. Our politicians have decided to give up the government. Bureaucrats are going to give us the election apparently. Some thoughts stand out in these dizzying turn of events, for those of us who until now thought that the talk about having CJ run the government for elections was a sham: 

1. Our politicians are a big risk takers (whether they calculate risks is an entirely different matter). 

2. Only the craziest of the ideas can bring our politicians together. 

3. We have lived in autocracy for a few months now, ruled by a few oligarchs (leaders of select few political parties), devoid of local level politics for several years; now we are going to be ruled by bureaucrats for a change. 

4. How is the politics going to look now? Power is now with the CJ. So what are our political parties going to fight for? Maybe because all of them are powerless, they will all concentrate on making good arguments, on winning arguments. Or maybe this is just a wishful thinking. Maybe they will feel the void and start attacking the CJ-led  government. 

5. The success of this government means that we will have an election that will give us an assembly that can start discussion on making a constitution (sounds familiar?). 

6. The failure of this government = no election (better not to imagine, but all too possible). 

7. Maybe crazy solutions work for our crazy politics. 

We hope so.