Presto! India, the largest democracy in the world,
has successfully emerged as the one only nation with two distinct oppositions
viz. one consisting of the communal party of India namely BJP and its
sympathizers and the other being a hood under Kisan Baburao Hazare, with the
residue of communal elements at his heels, which include, among others, the
RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, Ram Sena etc, all acting under the guise of a
crusade against corruption. Incidentally, these communal fanatics hold the
coveted claim as torchbearers of Hindu ethos and national culture, a
manifestation of which was witnessed in the 2002 Gujarat riots, 2008 Orissa
mayhem and Karnataka furor where, the state Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa is presently
lodged in jail. The latter, namely Kisan Baburao Hazare has been singularly
dying to dye the Indian sub-continent in bad light, with only a fraction of the
populace heeding his groans!
With Hazare’s hijack of all round development under the UPA government,
all in the name of corruption, the government is now left to grapple with dual
opposition breathing down the throat of an established popular government to
decide what is good for the nation and where to dig for the skeletons of a
corrupt nation and people.
Where exactly are we lacking in dynamism? Are not the
individuals collectively steering the wheel of a largest democracy, all in one
voice, with a sense of restraint keeping all extremes at bay, united with
resolve and contributing to the progress of the nation, boosting the image of a
progressive alliance in a free nation of diverse communities with a populace
estimated at 1.3 billion spread out in 28 states and 7 union territories, the
elected representatives of the very people who chose to adopt a Constitution on
26th January, 1950?
Are we Indians in favour of a stable
government functioning on an ideally disciplined platform catering to the needs
of diverse communities on a land spread out over an area of 3,287,240 sq. kms
or are we beckoning a state of barbarity and blackmail by a select few
villagers to envelope the nation with their chorus orchestrated by some mean
minded and disgruntled people of yesteryears of uneven category?
Incidentally, the real opposition has lost all sense of ethics.
Their lofty views merely hoist destructive and empty verbal blasts from time to
time, which hardly meet the parameters required to build a nation and
people. Far from being constructive, the opposition has lost their teeth
of conviction, while their intermittent blurts only fuel the fire of
ignominious disharmony among the right minded people. Do we need statistics to
read in to reality or do we make up our mind to assert our voice for the real
democracy which is presently ransacked, shattered and held to ransom by a few
mean minded individuals under the fickle minded guidance of Kisan Baburao
Hazare?
To start with – taking cue from Hazare, his communal following
have started flinging vague aspersions without any base or leash on individuals
of integrity and righteousness, merely to vent their ire at the real culprits
who would never come out of hiding till the government makes cautious inroads
in to their nefarious deeds. But this needs to be done cautiously without
alluding to information obtained through particular channels of government
machinery. The need of the hour is, therefore, to infuse ethics and
righteousness among a people and the nation, a majority of whom are uneducated,
uncultured or ill-informed of the real picture. By slinging mud at any and all
within the government amount to smearing innocent and righteous people and
government without any rhyme or reason. This directly harms the nation, the
government and individuals who work day in and day out for the welfare of the
people. Such unwanted references to people in high places get blown out of
proportion in the course of gossips and discussions.
To start with – taking cue from Hazare, his communal following
have started flinging vague aspersions without any base or leash on individuals
of integrity and righteousness, merely to vent their ire at the real culprits
who would never come out of hiding till the government makes cautious inroads
in to their nefarious deeds. But this needs to be done cautiously without
alluding to information obtained through particular channels of government
machinery. The need of the hour is, therefore, to infuse ethics and
righteousness among a people and the nation, a majority of whom are uneducated,
uncultured or ill-informed of the real picture. By slinging mud at any and all
within the government amount to smearing innocent and righteous people and
government without any rhyme or reason. This directly harms the nation, the
government and individuals who work day in and day out for the welfare of the
people. Such unwanted references to people in high places get blown out of
proportion in the course of gossips and discussions.
If any individual
including Hazare decides to incite people against the government and
individuals of dignity and status, if these very people project themselves as
the ones entrusted with power to flout norms and laws of the country in the
guise of agitation, if they decide to promote personal prestige and
individuality, in the process deflating the government machinery from
functioning, then the least we can suggest to them is to burn the constitution,
desist from electing any government and get back to barbarity of old. However,
they must realize that the nation and the Constitution is not a pack of cards
or papers for Hazare and his ilk to play with, nor is the government a property
to fiddle with. These men of mean wisdom need to realize that they do not stand
to represent the 1.3 billion advancing populace.
Moreover, we the
people of India need to realize that, whereas we slammed the perpetrators of
Parliament attack case during 2001, today Hazare and his ilk are denigrating
the very same Parliament, Constitution, institutions, government and people who
deserve to be respected as custodians of the nation, the rights of 1.3 billion
people and people elected through proper democratic channel.
However, the acts
and commissions being resorted by these crusaders amount to inciting mob,
defiling constitution, spreading hatred against government and individuals and
blackmailing the nation, the government and the majority of people for which
not only Hazare but the very people following in his footsteps ought to be
taken to task. To go about this, the law enforcement people need to first
tackle the followers, detain the lot of them without any mercy and then send
Hazare back to his village, for this is in the interest of the nation, people
and the non-agitating people who accept democracy and the constitution.
Was it not a hasty blackmail by Hazare and his ilk, to shoot to personal fame and reputation by forcing the government to succumb to blackmail and pressure tactics? My advice to the suffering 1.3 billion is to vote en masse for the UPA government at the next general elections to deal firmly against these blackmailers and stumbling blocks from articulating in anyway under the guise of democratic freedom and in the process slow down the nation’s progress and development. Rather than a fast unto death, I feel a faster end for such people would be better than a fast unto death!
Let me make it amply clear. 'Hindustan ' is roaring ahead to be counted amongst super powers of the world but starving in ethics, truth, honesty and righteousness. These basic virtues that go to make up an upright man worthy of trust in a society are either non existent or are scarce items held close to heart by a select few who do not have the courage to open up in public. Corruption is only one segment of the vicious circle that the country is enveloped in but prior to tackling corruption, there is need to make the nation a vibrant entity as a country fostering ethics, truth, honesty and righteousness.
We all shout for 'India
Is it not strange that corruption being the hallmark of democracy, we still expect truth and righteousness to emerge out of a people, all of whom (we ourselves) profess to be ruling a country that we claim to have been wrested from the hands of a foreign government? Why slam the present government when it comes to a boiling corruption where we the mob, forget we too have certain duties and responsibilities as citizens for whom the government is on their toes to take the country forward? Do we as responsible citizens forget that we too have a role to check corruption and it should not all be left to the shoulder of a government alone to work out strategies?
Has not this crusader faltered ominously when he attempted to leave an impact on his followers with his "Now our responsibilities have doubled". Didn't he have the guts to admit that he never was responsible (by deciding a fast unto death - or was it a ploy to commit suicide which law prohibits) except to blackmail the government to succumbing to individual pressure to the extent of undertaking a 'fast unto death'? I must make it amply clear and emphatic that the last few months saw hasty acts by people and Hazare, who all found it expedient to either blackmail the government or succumb to their own irresistible pleasure for power.
Kisan Hazare badly needed an applause which he got for free. The irony of it all is that he got the right topic to spill and a people with communal hatred to rally around him. But does this get the hell of a corruption out? Has this enabled the country to rid corruption or chalk out a method to prevent the menacing plague? Thanks to a reborn mahatma in the person of Kisan Hazare, the symbol of people who shout hoarse on corruption and become great overnight, thereby leaving a section of people including the opposition and the country time and again to steal time off their enactment of drama in Parliament to call for hartal and stall the progress of the nation and dart for votes. Some people need to slam the government merely for the heck of it. Corruption for these people is not only their responsibility but their hard fought earning power as well, besides a tool to slam the government.
It is cowardliness to go on fast unto death without first rallying people around and getting those areas of dens of corruption ransacked and go to jail if needed and then retract the steps for a fast (if needed only) but not blackmail straight away to get the applause of people. This is shame and more than shame to now find ‘corruption path’ for getting cheap fame. Why have these stalwarts kept quiet during younger days and took up cudgels when ripe old age has caught up? These people never found time and opportunity to alert the government or do some homework of their own? I pity the country is under such blackmailers and receiving undue publicity on account of a ring of communal fanatics playing second fiddle to the man from Ralegaon, Maharashtra.
It is not that corruption is a headache for people and communal elements, on the contrary the headache of it all is that they, like the Indian opposition, are not able to wrest power to “go and do likewise’. Every one of us lives for corruption because none of us want it out. It is corruption that is giving us a night’s sleep except that people call it ‘money and convenience’ – the more the better! See the rush at the metro stations – no one has time for another, they must get in at all cost! Does this constitute magnanimity or is it corruption and a corrupt mindset gnawing in to the Indian populace?
Rallying around one mute, dumb and dilly-dallying person – call him Kisan Baburao Hazare for now – will not do us the favour that we all hope for. Hazare failed to do his homework on his own for successfully bringing about a change in the system. Ours is a system that has been maimed by unscrupulous or barbarous people owing allegiance to a religion and culture (call it ‘Hindustan ’) in a country of over one billion. The mob here are hard to educate because virtues such as honesty or righteousness will never go down well with a people who even today are chanting their freedom struggle – all for a gain which they cannot come by unless they feed their baby called ‘corruption’.
In order to work out of this great puzzle of a menace, we need to do our bit which Anna Hazare failed to do. So, the next time someone wishes to do some good for the nation let him rally people around, visit those areas, places and people where corruption is embedded, pull up the officers, staff and create a commotion. Repeat this process at all places where according to them corruption is beyond redemption, pull up people, create commotion and if needed, be prepared to go to jail and then go on a fast unto death so that when journalists and government officials visit you – point out your grievances naming them without fear or favour. By doing this, you would create panic among the very people who are knee deep in corruption and slowly those very people will start forgetting the modus operandi that they have hitherto been used to and change for the better or lose their own jobs.
Then look back and see how your acts work for providing a sound, vibrant and efficacious solution in a country where rampant corruption has stalled even the law, law enforcers and the courts as well.
The nation has its wheels deflated by a bunch of hostile elements in the shape of communal organizations (like RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena Ram Zene etc and the alike) and to realize any positive result, be it ridding of corruption, there is always these elements and the communal parties creating hurdles.
We the people of India
Unfortunately, Hindus are not able to reconcile with their own misadventures, so people have to link them and their culture with a colour – why not saffron? Ayodhya issue and its aftermath where their own vices have given voice to their own culture of extremism rather than a spirit of reconciliation is by itself an eye opener, on the extent to which religion could disintegrate thenation in to a chaotic state in a couple of decades hence.
A bunch of jokers in the form of communal fanatics have taken the centre stage on a land which has always been safeguarded by the single party that has kept itself aloof from communal politics. We need to reassure ourselves that the nation is on the right rails and we need to allow it to function at a pace and process that would take the entire country forward irrespective of a community, race, caste or state.
The duo – Hazare and Ramdev in unison have given the basic virtues of patience and scrupulousness a skip and adopted measures through coercive and blackmail tactics in their bid to axe a democratic appeal by the government to abide by a timely process. The present stage of corruption culminated through many decades of let up in our effort to bring about the process, which from time to time got deflected with the change of governments. Now that the UPA government is well in place, we may expect a possible and positive result, but for everything a vibrant majority within the government is the asking rate. Can we provide that?
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