The Charges Against Amitabh Bachchan; The Politician:

Amitabh Bachchan is a one of the greatest cine idol of this country and there can’t be two views on this. The whole country had emotionally stood by him when he met an accident while shooting for the film “Coolie”. Country also showed his sympathies when he fell apart with the Gandhi family. But the recent attempt of Amitabh to move away from the selected group of great creative persons like Dilip Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar etc. to one who seems to exploit his public support for the political benefit of Samajwadi Party by becoming the brand ambassador for the party, will draw criticism which other wise would have been avoided by him. Many may not like this and I hope the charges may not be true but I wish to put up the following charges against him.

1.Amitabh is encashing the public support to him as a great actor for the political benefit of a regime who is undemocratic, parochial, casteist, corrupt and facilitator of criminality in the state. He should have kept away from politics.

2.Amitabh is opportunist. The deal between him and the Samajwadi party seems to be based on quid pro quo. It seems that the financial or otherwise help given to Amitabh by the leaders of Samajwadi party at the time of his crisis when his bunglow “Ashirwad” was tipped for auction is being reciprocated by him by giving support to the party. But he fails to understand that personal relations should have been kept only at personal level. The public support for an actor in a country like India should not have been misused for the political support of a party with many ills. Amitabh is doing this. And in this quid pro quo his wife has become Member of Parliament and his whole family has got the highest cultural award from the UP government. Many may say that the award to his son was just not right choice.

3.Some may say that the closeness of Amitabh with Samajwadi Party which is politically powerful as compared to Congress is an attempt of his to give a befitting reply to Sonia Gandhi. If that is the thinking of Amitabh then he has only lowered his image. In fact the two deal with different worlds. One politics and the other cinema. His popularity and the status would have always remained intact even if Congress would have done any witch hunting. On the contrary by coming in the trap of a political dealer who uses all types of language for the Gandhi family(which even BJP has never used) Amitabh has made himself prone to criticism of the same type which these political personalities attract . Sonia on the other hand has been able to maintain her dignity in the whole controversy.

4.Amitabh is doing great injustice to his state by promoting a product(political party) which person of his status should have never. It is a disservice to his motherland by befooling gullible public. The product of Amitabh is based on failure of law and order, belief in creating social friction, promotion of crude casteism where only few are preferred, criminalization of society so much so that the ordinary man has gone to the fringe in every walks of life, promotion of only few business families and groups in most unfair and non transparent way, promoting only the party workers in the bureaucracy so much so that all right thinking government servants have been marginalized and only absolutely corrupt are being favoured, criminalization of students, loot of public money by few resulting in failure of government schemes, total standstill of bureaucratic system, creating frictions between the instrumentalities of state. These are only some observations. Detail in each sector will produce several horrible films.

5.One may or may not agree with my views but one thing is for sure that Amitabh‘s image would have been at a high pedestal if he had confined himself to films or social activities. By entering in political field directly or indirectly he has exposed himself to a close public scrutiny. History will prove this will be the biggest strategic mistake of Amitabh .