Click to play videoNew Delhi: It is not just the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that has the public upset. More recent instance of public anger - forcing politicians to act or apologise - has been played out across television networks over the last six months in India.
There was outrage in Mumbai just days after 26/11 - spontaneous and spilling over. And the target, the figure of hate, was the Indian politician.
Pictures of then Maharshtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh taking his actor son Riteish Deshmukh and Bollywood director Ram Gopal Varma on a tour of the battered Taj hotel fueled the public anger. It was this anger that finally forced Vilasrao Deshmukh and then Union home minister Shivraj Patil to resign.
Kerala Cheif Minister V S Achuthanandan's insensitive comments on the family of slain NSG commando Major Unnikrishnan may not have cost him his job, but it did not spare him from being lampooned on the streets of Kerala.
It seems that the time has come for the Indian neta to recognise that democracy is the rule of the people, by the people, for the people. And if they don't, the next shoe may just be coming their way.
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