POLITICAL LOYALTY

 

                POLITICAL LOYALTY

Political loyalty is as necessary as any other loyalty. It is an unchangeable commitment and should not be abandoned in any adverse or unprofitable circumstance.

Politics is not commercial business. It is patriotism. It is love of a moral ideology. It should not be adopted for loaves and fishes but for self-sacrifice.  

It is a common phenomenon that a political party becomes financially weak, politically un-rewarding and less fruitful than it used to be. It may be a critical time for the party and its members. It is however also the time for its member to remain loyal and contribute their abilities to re-strengthen their party, not to leave it like a sinking ship.

            It is not wrong to say that most modern politicians go for what they regard the seven cardinal principles, namely the five loaves and two fishes.

            It is also correct to say that party standards are the shadows in which patriotism is buried.

            Most of the politicians say we want to serve the country which is not fully correct. They want to serve themselves more than the country. Gains from so-called patriotism have different forms.

Finally, the views of the French statesman Alexis Charles Henry de Tocqueville (1805 – 1859). He said : The political parties that I would call great, are those which cling more to principles than to consequences; to general, and not to special cases; to ideas, and not to men ---Such parties are usually distinguished by a nobler character, more generous passions, more genuine convictions and a more bold and open conduct than others.

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G.R.Kanwal

30 March  2024