Before starting my topic, I want to apologise in advance because this post deals with political stuffs and may hurt the emotions of the people having 'hardcore' political view points. Yet I wanna share my feelings with you as I think this post may let you think about your perception regarding the administrative figures of the country... Firstly, the new 'phrase' should be understood, as this is uncommon to many of us. CULT OF PERSONALITY (in easy terms) is, something far beyond POPULARITY. It's an influential person's charismatic or sometimes propogandiac persona. The formative leaders tend to HAVE this. And dictators tend to USE this. The formative leaders like our Bangabondhu had this. A good example of this is, when our country got liberted and Bangladesh Bank was established, the bank needed gold for liquidity. At that time when Bangabondhu asked the mass to contribute their gold belongings, they paid heed to his words and literally gave them. Even Hitler had this thing in himself. He could motivate with his 'enlighted' speechs that motivated 8 million people to join nazi party, starting with only sixty. Another wide user of this cult of personality is a dictator Alberto Pinnoche, of Chili. He used wide propogandas that, only HE can let the Chili people out of 200% inflation, although he could not do anything!
But when a mediocre person who hadn't much sacrificed for his state or people and most importantly when the country is at the state of democracy, is hyped up for his political nexus, the country ironically faces political and most importantly democratical imbalance. That person may automatically have popularity for his nexus with the influential figure. But the person should 'cement his place' among the immortals, who sacrificed actually a lot. Like- Rajiv Gandhi, a person having a rich political pedigree has always been a popular figure for being the grandson of Nehru. But he did a lot for the farmers and for the youth. That's why congress somewhat uses Rajiv Gandhi's facevalue still today to influence the youth.
Now I won't write much as perhaps you may have understood my thoughts. Now my main motive is to, give you people a simple message and that is blindly believe the original democratic cult of personality and believe the new ones with a lot of evaluation and then give them places to your heart.
