Man is a Political Animal!

If politicians have the right to behave like animals, why can't we let dogs vote? They have paws too.

A look into history reveals that politics and animals have consistently been in cahoots.

Last week in Bihar, a group of dissidents of a national party took out a rally featuring a battery of pigs and donkeys, drawing a similarity between their own state and that of the animals.

Devi Lal, our former Jaat Deputy Prime Minister's state residence in New Delhi had two well-bred buffaloes from Rohtak as housemates. The old man refused to evict the bovine beasts from the state property, insisting that he could not run the country properly without two fresh glasses of buffalo milk every morning. Cops on security at the house confessed to have mistaken the beasts for the D-PM and vice versa on many occasions. Why two buffaloes? Nobody knows, but the second one was for backup, one might guess. Even Saddam Hussain kept two lookalikes.

The charkha-weilding Mahatma Gandhi mentored what was probably the world's most traveled goat, which he took with him on all foreign tours. One European country even accorded the goat in the esteemed 'state guest' status.

Of course, every now and then politicians turn into the equine to be traded like silk in greedy government formation attempts. Some actually behave like stampeding horses when put inside an assembly hall and armed with mikes with weak bases fixing them to the tables.