Hazare's Ethics do not match Truth!

MY WIFE USHA KIRAN

JOINS ME IN SLAMMING THE SO CALLED CRUSADE

BY IGNORANT AND UNSCRUPULOUS ELEMENTS MAKING MOCKERY

OF A SYSTEM – READ DEMOCRACY –

TO MALIGN PEOPLE AND NATION

When a troupe of farmers from Ralegaon Siddhi (Maharashtra) descended on the capital during April 2011 last, no one expected the drama to be such a lengthy affair, all for the sake of a ‘mahatma fame!

The entire drama boiled down to a mono act by a 74 year old namesake doctor, Kisan Baburao Hazare, the well known namesake social worker and actor-turned-politician from Ralegaon Siddhi, Maharashtra. Age – 74, Education – 7^th standard. Health – fit enough to fast unto death. Vision: death through fast.  Morale – Sagging when denied a role but excited about making quick pace to stardom in the role of a ‘mahatma’. One achievement in life – attempted suicide but lived to write an essay on it.  Main objective - attaining a halo round his head. Support base – a coterie of sycophants mainly from Maharashtra and adjoining areas and a few sulking icons of yester years followed by stray public from the communal fanatics, come to watch the comedy. Draw back – piqued at Ramdeo being visited at airport by some senior ministers in the government to which he murmured “there was no need for it”! If analyzed in depth, the mono act would lose its steam except a craze for fame.

Hazare is a good politician and played his card well that suited his dream image namely a ‘mahatma’. He hoodwinked the mob that got the basics wrong. Anna has been deafeningly ignorant to pleas by the government that the elected representatives are fully seized of the plague called corruption. Hazare as a matter of fact never wanted that intelligent and capable men in the government should piece out a solution acceptable to all sections of the society. Such a compromise would deprive him of the halo he is after. He therefore, made no bones of the integrity and prestige of the nation but rushed to Delhi on the advice of his coterie for a crusade which alone could catapult him to the right slot as ‘mahatma’.  A last ditch effort by the 74 year old veteran – to attain some cheap fame and reputation.

Anna’s passing away would be deeply felt by all those who never wanted a democratic solution or peaceful transition to a government sponsored bill against corruption. Now the communal party too has chipped in with their version of support for the suicide bidder on the plea that the Civil Activists’ bill would have better teeth than a government designed one. Incidentally, the communal party namely the BJP knows for certain that their only way to attain power at the center is by corroding the mass base enjoyed by the ruling party, viz. UPA. And the only way out to achieve this is by their communal politics.

My take: Is India on a war path to confrontation with a government it elected or with a Constitution it chose to adopt on 26.01.1950? Is Kisan Baburao Hazare inciting a civil war between government-versus-communal forces vis-à-vis civil movement? Hazare’s anti-Congress call at Hissar was a plot to get at the dream halo of ‘mahatma’!

 

A silent civil war pioneered by a sulking blackmailer in his eagerness to get at a halo of ‘mahatma’ is already gnawing in to the national fabric of harmony and oneness.  Behold the author of this devastating quake timed to perfection at his ripe old age of 72 which agitation is badly mauling up the nation’s integrity and oneness.

Hazare has, in the last few months been undermining the ethos of a vibrant democracy that had hitherto got its tricolor flutter atop the nation making its 1.3 billion mass base proud. After Hazare got his sulking mentality wield power over the ignorant public, in an attempt to blackmail a democratically elected government with intermittent bumps and moans, the government has had to leave the national priorities to pacify a psychologically unfit citizen and a rigid veteran of yesteryears groaning to attain his halo.  The government, in the meanwhile, is at its wits’ end as to whether they should let him have his way twisting the constitution and the nation’s march to progress or allow him to finish off his rigidness with his fast unto death. One may piously hope he gets his due and the nation and government their right.

 

Kisan Baburao Hazare is a fully satisfied soul today. No qualms about having been born poor. He has lived a life to his will, his heart’s content. He has had pleasures of living a free man on the streets of Mumbai in the company of wayward elements. He has exhausted his sexual urges.  Had his ways in every phase of life, be it in eating, drinking etc. At 72 the only coveted crown that might have been eluding him for years was that of a ‘mahatma’ which the billionth of an Indian majority would be loath in handing it over to him on a platter. To this end he finds it expedient to arm-twist a fully functioning democratically elected government.

 

On the face of it all, everything is normal and what the nation witnesses today is just the sulking master doing his round with one only objective in mind, what if it is not in the interest of the nation? As of today, everything is normal. The government is in place and the only disaster building up is that of Hazare’s team menacingly set to strike at the core of nation’s ethos and dedication. In the melee, the extremists too are doing their rounds and only future will tell as to what extent the recklessness by Hazare and his team could upset the equilibrium of the Indian sub-continent. Only a devastating strike by the extremist’s hell bent attempt to strike hard and deep will show the impact of hooking the government for the bait. Then it will be too late for the public presently making a beeline for Hazare’s crusade.

 

The public following Hazare carry the national flag without any show of party affiliation or communal outlook. However, behind the hood of this eruption on corruption are the dastardly elements which constitute the communal fanatics of India, that could wreak vengeance on the nation and states. RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, Ram Sena are only few names that make up the following at the heels of Hazare but the agenda they are after under the guise of fighting corruption could bleed the nation with a toll of extreme dimensions.  The fury with which the civil activist at the height of his grey hairs has descended in to depressive and sentimental depths to lit the pyre of corruption under a yet to be tested Lokpal bill, only time will tell what awaits the masses on the wings of communal disguise and extremist thrust from behind the screen.

We human beings tend to project wrong equations. Our over enthusiasm – like the manner in which Hazare at 74 is eager to portray a savior-like image to fool the public, makes us count our gains in terms of a hundred and one percent. But no teacher awards a ‘101’ marks out of 100 to any student.  Such over enthusiasm leaves us with a disconnect from reality. We squander away opportunities, project wrong equations, miss the target and then start blame game for making scapegoat of people and government who never intended it the wrong way. A democratically elected government, capable of managing the affairs of the nation, is well entrenched on the saddle which alone has the ability to safeguard the tomorrow of the nation.  Individuals like Hazare who squandered away their yesterdays and years ignoring pleas by his aunt to concentrate his mind on studies fell on deaf ears, can only bring the nation on its knees by their sulking temperaments.

Blackmail, hijack, ransom call, treachery, kidnap, murder are equally punishable offences as suicide and abetment to suicide. Then how does blackmail of ‘fast unto death’ deserve to be condoned as a democratic agitation which may ominously derail the initiatives of the nation put in by the government?  The cause projected by Hazare is mere excuse to eyewash or hoodwink the public but the core aspect of agitation is to achieve his halo as ‘mahatma’ while the communal fanatics who follow him have but one aim in view – to oust the government that never allowed a free hand to their fanaticism.

Kisan Baburao Hazare is a tune without rhythm, a voice devoid of sound, a spirit without truth, a mind without conscience, a wind that blows nobody any good and a man who cannot officiate as a mediator between masses and the government. The only good trait in him is an un-written will to fade away from life with a Gandhian image, which wish of his too fails to materialize because he possesses no charisma or a national image. All that he has is a driving force called ‘ego’, which is hooded behind his vague articulation to rid corruption off the national periphery and which call of his is orchestrated by a few of his regional followers from Ralegaon. To go straight to the point, he is yet to feel the pulse of the nation and the nation his worth.

 

Kisan Baburao Hazare and his diehard zealots need to pull up their socks. As of now, his cherished dreams seemed to be materializing but the future alone will hold the harvest for the future – be it lean or bulk. It so appears that India is starving for people with some human sense to realize that there cannot be parallel government nor can progress be made by coercion and threats. Blackmail through fast unto death is entirely out of the question in an age that has seen better achievements on all fronts.

With the second fast that began on 16^th August, 2011 stretching up to 28^th August, 2011 only exposed the double standards by the communal elements and the veteran staving off any dilution of intent but the cat was out of the bag when RSS itself came out with the hooded lie. A shrewed government may have appeased the crowd by giving Hazare a better death elsewhere and under better circumstances but not without exposing the real Hazare who had his own irons in the fire. By doing so, the government machinery staved off any threat to its functioning as before and the fate of 1.3 billion had to be saved from the clutches of a bunch of fanatics.

Hazare would certainly have realized the futility of trying to weave a one-man dictatorship to gain vain fame and popularity.  He also needs to come to terms with a 21^st century that cannot be assessed in terms of prehistoric days when one man’s dictum would have been taken at face value. The world has fast progressed at a pace that cannot be kept track of and only reason and intelligence can work a way out of the present imbroglio of avarice and corruption.

The nation is in the midst of a catastrophe of extreme dimension and it ought not be the look out of a villager or kisan to undo the present meddle it is in. The plague of corruption that the nation is presently seized of cannot be done away with by merely creating fuss under the banner of an illiterate and uneducated person of regional fame. The nation needs people with intelligence, tact, diplomacy and determination to fight battle out of a dilemma it is in.

 

It is important to remember that, corruption unlike extremism calls for diplomacy and tact. By dodging the issue, Hazare has been crippling the very process to a standstill and allowing the sinister elements to make good the escape or destroy evidence, if any.

For stamping out this social menace, there is need to ensure close coordination between people and government, frame new laws that can motivate people to scrupulously follow them without straying off the path of truth and righteousness.

However, if Hazare deems it fit to frustrate all efforts put in by the government to get at the dragon of corruption, then time alone would tell which way Hazare might go and for how long and to what effect the government would manage his tantrums to its own advantage by getting the 1.3 billion aware of the tantrums resorted to by this namesake doctor called Kisan Baburao Hazare.