There’s hardly any political race where candidates don’t get mud slung by dreadful mistakes they committed in their past. And if there are none, the rival candidates, the electorate and the media play concerted roles in cooking up scandalous stories to forcibly fit into the social web of such candidates. But it has also become conventional that every candidate accepts such a wrong and horrible part of our political system and recognizes that by filing for candidacy, they have decided to walk the walk of shame; some deservedly, others not.
Among the presidential candidates for the UG SRC elections re-scheduled for Thursday, OTTING or Levelz as he is fondly called has had his reputation driven through the mud more than any other. It gets worst when he tries to refute such allegations; some of which are clearly screaming propaganda out loud. Then the hits just keep on coming.
All these controversies do have a superficial twist to them; while the engineers of such hullabaloos are increasing OTTING’s popularity; which is vital in winning elections, they are also projecting a new perspective to the electorates; the greatest threat gets mud slung the most.
Isn’t it reasonable to assume that in a race where all candidates have more equal prospects of winning, propaganda messages should be evenly distributed between them? Yes it is. Propaganda isn’t shared circularly anymore; its coming from different angles; in all shapes and colors aimed and fired at one recipient most of the time.
The engineers of such allegations must come to the understanding that political chess maneuvers go beyond anonymous messages disseminated over Whatsapp which most of the time the electorates know to be untrue. It does more harm than good when electorates begin to ask who these controversies are about. They always know the recipient; never the sender. Though with smart motives but no to smart methods, many candidates chances are made bleaker by the day because electorates never know them; just the candidates they instigate fruitless propagandas against… which leads me to conclude that mayhaps the office of campaign managers are over-rated and the real threats to these candidates are the friends who occupy such offices.
