Wednesday, May 31, 2006

What's happening?

Today was the vote for electing commissioners for Imphal Municipal Council. Local body elections are always somewhat low key. But it was so low key today that I suspect that there is something very wrong. For the ward(11) I’m living in, I even don’t know how many candidates are in the fray. Not a single candidate came to my house(also, to my neighbourhood) for seeking votes. Not even by using public address system. I heard only one candidate using the public address system only once or twice on the road. That’s the only candidate I came to know of his candidature!

In the past elections, all the candidates made it a point to come to every house in my neighbourhood and shake hands with all the male members of the households. And for every election I did know how many candidates were there in the fray and who was most likely to be elected.

Do we see some kind of an emerging trend here? Do we see the first glimpse of an undercurrent trying to emerge into the centre stage of our society?

You know, most of the time I’m in state of a pretty conspiracy theory. But this kept me thinking all day long.

You may also think that people are bored of local bodies elections as there is no funds for them and the ministers are not in moods to hand over the key for State funds to anyone elected to the local bodies.

Wrong.

Ward no 24 is always on the focus for Imphal Municipal Council election because it is the place for Moirangjao Kabui. He is some kind of permanent chairman of the Council. For many younger commissioners it has been a one point agenda to dethrone him but all they accomplished was to drag him from the chairmanship for one year the most. Then, Moirangjao will slip back into the chairmanship and this, he has doing over and over again. I guess he has gotten some expertise peculiar to the management of the council and when the crunch comes, every commissioner, irrespective of party affiliations, depend on him for problem solving.

There have been no meaningful challengers to Moirangjao at his ward. But this year has been declared a ward reserved for woman. For local bodies election some seats are reserved as ‘only women’ candidates—where the contestants are all female. They identify such seats by draw of lots for every election.

I came to know all of this as I passed through the ward no 24 area daily on my way to a small library.

Last Sunday, there was public meeting in the ward attended by big shots of Congress party for the Kalanchonglu, who I bet is the proxy for Moirangjao. There I heard that Imphal is among 60 cities selected for some centrally sponsored programs to improve city infrastructures in a targeted time frame. The speaker was coaxing all his workers for more attention because Imphal would have a lot of funds for development.

This news must have not escaped all those aspiring commissioners in my (and neighbouring ) wards where the election was so low key that it seems almost bizarre.

As an aside, try to remember the name Kalanchonglu for some days. Some days later you will agree with me that it’s such a beautiful name. Try that.

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