Whose road is it?

We were coming back after dropping off a friend at the airport, when suddenly all the traffic was stopped to make way for a VIP. While this was a typical incident, we started discussing whether the VIP has a right to stop the traffic at any given point of time. Couple of things come to my mind:
1. The right to the road is every citizen's. And the VIP is usually someone elected by the people. So he isn't some king ruling his fiefdom, who has a right to make them wait so he can pass. What if there is a sick person or some other emergency? Too bad eh? Moreover, sometime you just don't know how long you have to wait till the person passes with his/her entourage. And if you didn't notice, policemen magically appear at places where none seem to exist during other times when they are genuinely required.
2. Another side to this is, as Dibyo pointed out, the VIPs never understand the totally screwed up traffic scene in Bangalore. They always find wide open spaces to zoom through. Let them travel on Hosur Road between 8:30 - 9:30 am. I would love to see these VIPs squirm in the traffic jam and then shoot off their mouths as how Bangalore is such a sexy place to love in and there's no problem with traffic. Everything citizens might say is just pure delusional , must be a conspiracy to politicise and spread propaganda eh? Absolutely I say, we all are just a bunch of morons! Citizens are always wrong aren't they. But they always need to pay higher taxes every year. I wonder where all this money goes? Specially if you have noticed that the population in Bangalore has quadrupled in the last couple of years. I do not see any public work getting done. The Airport flyover has been re-started (it had started some 2 years back!).

And yes, if you were ever wondering, you can never get a speeding ticket in Bangalore. I would love to meet someone who has ever got one in the last couple of years!!! If you haven't noticed the city speed limit has been revised to 10 km/hr.