Punjab politics has become a hilarious yet tragic banquet where politicians are the only diners and ordinary citizens are reduced to decorative napkins, crumbs on the floor, or invisible ingredients in a recipe they never get to taste.
Public funds meant for roads, schools, hospitals, and welfare are served exclusively to the elite few, while the rest of the people watch helplessly as their hard-earned taxes disappear into private pockets. Roads are built for photo-ops, hospitals exist in brochures, schools are full of promises but empty of resources, and every public scheme is garnished with speeches while the main course is devoured by those in power.
Farmers, the backbone of the state, are treated like optional side dishes—loan waivers, subsidies, and fair prices are promised, delayed, diluted, or stolen entirely, while bureaucrats slice and dice the system with kickbacks, inflated contracts, and favoritism, ensuring that only loyalists, relatives, and friends get a taste. Public services like electricity, water, healthcare, and education are politicized illusions; citizens are forced to buy private alternatives at exorbitant costs while politicians post photos of themselves “serving the people” for applause and votes.
Nepotism and cronyism are sprinkled generously on every government job and contract, merit is discarded like expired garnish, and opportunities for ordinary citizens are cooked down into a thin gravy of dependence. Debt is the dessert of this banquet, borrowed extravagantly for short-term applause but leaving long-term indigestion for the people, as rising interest payments consume the state’s revenue and citizens pay the price with taxes and shrinking services. Bureaucrats act as sous-chefs in this feast of corruption, slicing, dicing, and seasoning the public wealth, while high-ranking officers accused of wrongdoing continue unharmed thanks to political protection.
Meanwhile, politicians laugh, feast, and sip the finest juices of power, ignoring the starving masses, while the people wait patiently, hoping that one day the banquet will finally serve them instead of their own exploitation. In short, Punjab has perfected the art of sucking the blood of its citizens while maintaining the illusion of governance, turning public service into a comical, tragic, and absurd performance that leaves everyone laughing, crying, and shaking their heads at the sheer audacity of it all.