Dissolve the people: Way to go, when the masses get in the way of the leaders

Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde was 100% right when he said he did not have to go and visit college students protesting against the rising incidence of violent crime against women in the nation's capital. Shinde, in any case, is scheduled to visit the people some 15 months later when the 2014 general elections will be held if the present Lok Sabha serves its full term.
If and when the Congress-led UPA coalition is re-elected to power, the only person Shinde has to visit is his party president who will decide whether or not he will continue as India`s home minister once she makes up her mind who should be the next prime minister. If Shinde continues in office after the next elections, he will not for another five years have to visit college students demanding better policing to ensure the safety of women in the national capital.
And so what if the ruling party retains for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections its slogan of 'Congress ka haath aam admi ke saath'. Home minister Shinde can best serve the people by keeping a safe distance from them so that he can get the right perspective on their problems. Shinde must have already taken note of what the Congress president-in-waiting Rahul Gandhi told a delegation of protesting students — that emotional decisions could have far-reaching consequences.
The best way to take logical and not emotional decisions is by keeping a safe distance from protesting students who have to be periodically brought to their senses by water cannons or teargas shells or lathicharges or all three of them. If the people don`t know what is good for them, the Delhi police can always teach them as per its motto of `With you. For you. Always`.
And the best way of pre-empting protests is by shutting down Metro stations in the heart of Delhi for days. So what if thousands of office-goers including women struggle to reach their destinations or are forced to return home? And so what if protesters carry placards with slogans saying `Metro station kyon bandh kiye? Tumhare baap ke paise se bana hai kya?` (Why have you shut Metro stations? Were they made with your father`s money?)
And so what if the access roads to India Gate and Raisina Hill remain closed and traffic diverted to other choking arteries? While being driven down sanitised and people-free roads, the North Block and South Block-bound ministers with VIP security like Shinde could have applied their minds to finding solutions to the aam admi`s problems without being disturbed by noisy slogans of `We want justice`.
The just-returned Lt governor of Delhi Tejinder Khanna has told us that the organisers of the London Olympics personally invited the police commissioner Neeraj Kumar to advise them on how to conduct an incident-free Olympiad since they were impressed with the smooth running of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. After being driven down Delhi`s sanitised roads, the visiting Russian president Vladimir Putin could have been so impressed that he could have invited Kumar, Shinde and Khanna to advise the Moscow police on how to not just stop a few Pussy Riot protest-singers but safeguard the masses from protesting people who don`t know what`s good for the people.
All of which reminds one of the poem `The Solution` penned by German playwright Bertolt Brecht, on the measures taken against the uprising of 1953 in East Germany by the government:
"After the uprising of the 17th of June/ The Secretary of the Writers Union/ Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee/ Stating that the people/Had forfeited the confidence of the government/ And could win it back only/ By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier/ In that case for the government/ To dissolve the people/ And elect another?"
Can the Delhi Police dissolve the people with water cannons?