Our politicians have been attacking each other viciously over the past few months. Most people think that this isn’t a very good thing, and perhaps they are right. Calling someone like Manmohan Singh a “Shikhandi” even disgusts someone like me and I am a person who a) does not get easily disgusted and b) actually enjoyed it when it was Sonia Gandhi under attack.

I was about to write a post wondering what on earth had gotten into the BJP to do such self-defeating things, when it occurred to me that there was a positive side to all this muslinging and all this arresting each other on corruption charges.

You see, most of our politicians deserve to be in jail for one reason or the other, be it for corruption, rioting, rape or murder. Our leaders accuse each other of all these crimes during election time, but after they get elected, they usually say things like “We will not be vindictive”. That’s because they know quite well that if they seriously pursue cases against each other, they will also be targetted by their opponents when they come to power.

So the positive side of all this vicious attacks on one another will hopefully be that the gentleman’s rogue’s agreement among our politicians may finally break down. If they put one another in jail with the same enthusiasm they have displayed in snarling at one another, it will be a blow for the rule of law.