Letter to Yeddyurappa

Sir,
Let all your detractors be doomed. You deserve to be reinstated as the chief minister of Karnataka, for you are one of a kind who graces the murky world of politics once in a while.
Sir, you are a leader at par with the standard bearers of India’s freedom movement. For those venerated bunch lured fellow countrymen, battered by penury and the batons of the police, with prospects of an independent country, a mere intangible gain. And here you are, commanding a herd of crooks motivated by their vested interests with panache and efficacy. Your triumph lies in weaving a seamless spell over this retinue who are seemingly oblivious of the doom they are headed to, going by the caustic reportage against you of late. But who cares as long as they maintain a bellicose stance against your adversaries, perhaps pampered by the pleasures that await them in distant farmhouses.
And there is no shame to it, sir, for pampering your paisan does not amount to nepotism. Had it been so, the Corleone family, perhaps novelist Mario Puzo’s greatest gift to the world of fiction, would not have attained the cult status it has. You merely extended a helping hand to your sons and son-in-law to make it big in life. You were the guiding force behind the millions your kin and acolytes allegedly amassed through clandestine deals, much the same way the Pandavas triumphed in Kurukshetra riding on Krishna’s perspicacity. Ignore the Lokayukta indictment, sir, for what it says is mere baloney. How can an apparently upright Santosh Hegde or governor H R Bharadwaj acknowledge the humungous efforts required to keep the surreptitious deals worth fortunes under the wraps? Do not ponder over the tarnished image before the electorate. Most of them, like those who paraded with Anna Hazare to the Ramlila Maidan, are charmed by heretics and crooks alike with promises that are never to materialise and you can well take care of that during campaigns, if given an opportunity. Their chagrin is fuelled by your nonchalance to resolving petty inconveniences like water scarcity, agonising waits at traffic snarls and the frustration of missing the dough despite bearing with grumpy bosses for over nine hours a day.
Sir, you are resilience personified. You have shown qualities of a pachyderm by absorbing every snub from your now-estranged colleagues and the party high command, who have forgotten that it was under your esteemed leadership that the BJP formed a government in the otherwise elusive Karnataka. Only the “graceful” bit was missing with you trampling their outcry since an acquittal from the court of law is pending. But again, law takes its own course and time and with the likes of Arun Gawli and Raja Bhaiya contesting elections, it is certainly not a poser to a prosperous career in politics. Probably prospects of a dystopian Karnataka with you at the helm barred the party higher ups from feting you for the unparalleled feat.
But you deserve to be commended for not getting languorous, an ill that plagues every average Indian. You fought back with fortitude and more vigor every time the disgruntled BJP leadership turned its back on you. Not your fault if your archaic bosses, who still nurture ambitions of a Hindu state, mistake your rancor for tantrums of a disobedient child who deserves a few lashes to be tamed. They seem not to realise that the hangover of the halcyon days (read productive) as chief minister is not as brittle as one imparted by a midnight tryst with excess whiskey, to be taken care of by lime and salt the next morning.
Your fall from grace was triggered by obstinacy and complacency. Not your fault, sir. How can a megalomaniac even imagine of being failed by his own handpicked protégé? But you have been a good tutor to an attentive student it seems, for Sadananda Gowda has beaten you at your own game, revolting and forging alliances. Only, he chose to be subtle in asserting his stance. When Lalu installed Rabri Devi as the chief minister of Bihar, it was an arrangement within the family. Moreover, the state was his fiefdom, which was not the case with you. You failed to register that the coveted seat of power is as dear to you as it is to anyone else. But you can ignore these, for they are pinpricks in a prickly relationship. We all hope someday L K Advani would receive you in Delhi instead of Gowda and the enervated leadership would reward you for faring better than a leech, instead of showing you the highway.