Why Politics is more Complicated than the Rocket Science?

"To run the government is not rocket science. If you have clear intentions, you will have solutions to solve the problems. Only if you are not one of the beneficiaries, you solve problems." said Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) recently.

He is not alone in thinking that politics is an easy task. Apparently, politics looks so simple that even an illiterate and uneducated think that he can run the government better than the present regime. However, the illusion is broken when even the most difficult person has to administer the people who have elected them to be their ruler.

You can not know the people accurately unless you know yourself clearly and accurately. Knowing the self is the most difficult job as J Krishnamurthy,  one of the greatest philosopher of twentieth century said, “You know, it is comparatively easy to go to the moon and beyond-as they have proved. But it is astonishingly difficult to go within (to know the self)”. Hence most of us do not know either ourselves well nor the people whom we are going to govern and hence fail miserably.

In reality the running of Government in a democratic is far more complex than the rocket science. It is because rocket scientists know the laws of nature which are eternal and does not change with every rocket while men changes their colour every moment and there is no law that governs all men. They are not same inside what they seems from outside. They say something and do something.

It is for this reason that when the greatest scientist Albert Einstein when offered the Presidency of Israel humbly refused saying, "I know a little of science, but nothing about men."

Come to think of the difficulty of governance in democracies like India. Leaders have to go door to door to poor people, middle class people and beg for their votes to "serve them" and promised them all they want in exchange of their votes. Then they have to rule the same people.

Once they are elected to power by the people, they have to change side and become from "Aam Aadmi" to "Khas Aadmi". Many of voters may be living in unauthorised colonies, many would be defaulter in payment of their bills, many are unemployed, and many are temporary employees who want to have permanent jobs. A politician has often taken so much credit/responsibility from the people for their vote, that fulfilling those may take a lifetime. But people have no patience. They all want their promises to be fulfilled immediately. 

Those people think that they have purchased the leader by their vote and made the Chief Minster (CM) and now he must serve them irrespective of his compulsion. How can he now take action against them and put them behind the bars for violation of law which he himself defied along with the people at the time of agitation against the then government?

It is extremely difficult to play the role of both servants of the people as well their ruler which is inevitable in democracies.

Politics, is thus far more complex and difficult than rocket science.