Who's Going To Be The Next P.M.? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

The fates of the candidates
In the fray
Sealed in the ballot boxes
As for who'll win
And who'll lose the election
To have the last laugh
As the member of the Parliament
Or the minister?

On whom Lady Luck will smile it,
The lottery draw coming to the lot of
In Kaun Banega Crorepat
And who'll be the 'Khakhpati',
Dreams nurtured so far
Turned into ashes,
Burnt to ashes,
The king of ashes and coals to view.

O, who'll be Destiny's child,
A list from Jawaharlal Nehru to Gulzarilal Nanda
And Lal Bahadur Shastri to Indira Gandhi
To Rajiv Gandhi to chandrasekhar to V.P.Singh
To Atal Bihari Vajpayee to I.K.Gujral
To Manmohan Singh to...,
Wait a bit,
Time will supply you with the list
In time?

Sit on chair no doubt
As the chairs are for someone's sitting
But seat not the undeserving,
But not the bogus and the buff-masters
Making a mockery of it,
The constitutional values and ideals,
Though there may be scope for reforms;
Push not the nation
Into the fire flames
Of violence and animosity
So that the nation keeps burning
And there's none to extinguish them,
So that the students keep self-immolating
And they seeing them burning,
Provoking to burn
As for to divide the nation.