Politician-porn recently dominated primetime news. The rather corpulent figure of Delhi AAP minister Sandeep Kumar was seen in merciless close-up, filmed in the throes of lurid passion. The ‘sex CD’ went viral even faster than the chikungunya epidemic. TV anchors shrieked in high decibel outrage. “Off with his head,” chanted Congress and BJP women activists on the street. Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal panicked and immediately suspended the “gandi machli”.
Kejriwal’s colleague Ashutosh however wrote a furious blog defending Kumar’s right to privacy. Yet in today’s times, does the right-to-a-private-life argument for politicians really work? No it doesn’t. In a fiercely competitive political scene, with the ravenous beast known as 24×7 media chomping hungrily on every new sensation, when citizens’ wrath against Read More
