The crisis we are all in today is too big to ignore and exit polls, or dare I say, even the actual results due on May 2 are too inconsequential. I am absolutely certain that if we are to defeat the pandemic, we must get our priorities right. What is more important today – is its exit polls, assembly polls or is it saving lives? I can only appeal to my friends in the media and other political parties, particularly the BJP, please, for God’s sake, do not seek to divert the narrative away from Covid only because it would help one man save his image. The premature celebration and applause that our Prime Minister is addicted to, and which has undoubtedly blinded him to the real problem we are now facing,largely because of the centralized system that he has created, must be avoided at all cost. For all of us who are supposedly the custodians of democracy – the media and us in the Opposition included, the time to pull up our socks and speak only on issues that the country wants to and needs to hear was yesterday – but today’s isn’t too late. Let’s talk about real issues.