CORRUPTION - An allegation that reflected a 7th standard intellect within Hazare!

The nation was never free from chaos, turmoil or incidents causing enormous hardships to public. Highhandedness, nefarious activities, atrocities, brutalities, butcheries, wars, murders, kidnap for ransom, match-fixing scandals, hijack, criminal assault, loot, theft, burglary, extremism, cross-border terrorism, civil strife, communal riots, dowry deaths, rape of innocents, plunder by people, tax evasion, snatching and pickpockets, theft of vehicles, arson, labor unrest, hoarding of essential commodities, pilferage of items, marketing day to day items & essential commodities at exorbitant rates – and what need you? 

Nevertheless, India never forsook its development plans, activities and programs. The Congress Government did not ever throw up its hands fed up of the anarchy and chaos committed by its own people.  It did not blame the citizens and people who stood to benefit from the progress the nation was making through unstinted efforts of a government that was awake to people’s problems. Today the same nation is capable of hoisting Common Wealth Games, Olympics and like events which project the nation as a force to reckon with.

All the developments took place at the behest of a party nurtured to its existence by people of eminence, dignified people who had a dream to see India on top of the world map.  

The tragedy struck when it was least expected. It was tragic indeed the way it came to pass. The ‘mahatma’ was taken unawares and had no inkling of what was in store for him; neither did he deserve such horrendous or untimely end. The nation joins the mourners in condoling the passing away of a halo at a time when the very crusade was yet to take off. The less affected ones will, in the meanwhile, reminisce with delight the manner in which they made the very capital rumble under their chant ‘I am Anna’, relishing all that they could lay their hands upon at no cost to themselves, making the police look bewildered at the free-for-all attitude by the communal fanatics who portrayed themselves as invincibile even as the entire nation watched in dismay while the victim himself lay at Ram Lila Maidan trying to make both ends meet or alternatively to meet his necessary end. That tells the bygone drama enacted on 16^th August, 2011. Incidentally, the crew of communal fanatics ignored the warnings by the government and the law.

No doubt democracy allows agitations by general public but in the present instance the crusade under the guise of fighting corruption was quite beyond acceptable limits. Unfortunately, the echo of hooliganism erupted beyond the borders with a bang that forced an eerie and stinging impression in the minds of the outside world that the largest democracy in the world was swarming with corrupt renegades bent on assailing the integrity and wealth of the nation. As the eyebrows started being raised by world powers, the nation merely hung its head in shame at being portrayed corrupt by some mean minded individuals, whose outlook was to beseech the government, malign the nation, the people and the government or to land the entire system in a political turmoil.

Even Hazare with his mean intellect, acted a puppet to arm-twist a diligent and conscientious government to buckle under pressure by vested interests, giving an authoritarian twist to a time-tested democracy.

High handed corruption is a one-time wave and not a daily affair, which the mute Hazare failed to diagnose. On the other hand, he used the wave to achieve a cheap fame.

An ignorant Hazare miserably failed to use his non-existent brain to talk a solution out deciding instead to antagonize an already existing government to bring about a law which only increased the work load within the system and nullified the values built up through unstinted efforts put in by the Father of the Nation Mohanadas Karam Chand Gandhi followed by a dedicated people and party working in tandem for the welfare of the nation.

However, the government could not be outwitted by a few hoodlums. In effect, the UPA government scored a decisive and fascinating victory by allowing his stubbornness to pine away for 13 wholesome days from 16^th to 28^th of August, 2011. The beleaguered corpse thus lay at the mercy of a determined government, while hordes of people watched the sequence of circus with curiosity, thrill and eagerness to witness a feeble skeleton of a man lying in state wearing his mindless body out for no cause whatsoever, quite adamant to bid adieu to this world.

Rightly did the government act determined, in a manner befitting the occasion. It was anarchy and chaos brought about by a few hoodlums trying to stage a coup on an elected government, portraying the 1.3 billion populace as a nation of corrupt betrayers who drove the British out only to grab the booty for themselves. Hazare had his projections well framed within his truant mind and what he lacked was a wreath of flowers to adorn his frame. Hence the deliberately maneuvered crash executed with precision by Hazare himself, in the company of the very ultras who intermittently call the shots and paralyze the nation. But has Hazare survived the crash? What exactly caused the crash? And how will the nation salvage its image?

Hazare’s fight did him in. Hazare fought where there was no resistance; he battled a government which had an unblemished reputation. He wrought to excel where he lacked in excellence. He attempted to undo what the government did through years of achievements.

It is awfully wrong, quite inappropriate and over-stepping the norms of good demeanor to call Kisan Baburao Hazare the son of a (Hazare?). Such a reference would not only wrong the dumb creatures but also antagonize the ignorant beings who are ignorant of their own ignorance.  But, when MSN site makes things public on 02.08.2011, the reporter cannot be termed a liar or out of his mind. 

If Hazare pondered over for a while with his 7^th standard assets on the quantum spent towards the election of a Parliament and in succession the Prime Minister of India thereafter, then his fight against individual corruption is too microscopic to place himself at parallel with the elected heads of state and parliament. When he is bent on finding loopholes in the government, daring to oust the UPA government or attempting to defend his team members already knee-deep in corruption, then it would be a corrupt act to refer to him as a man of integrity?

Was it not Hazare indulging in corruption partaking of the election process by casting his vote for the general elections in which crores were being drained away in to individual and public hands? Then how come Hazare and a section of the people feel overawed when a few thousand crores find dubious pipelines?

By the way, when he confessed to having attempted suicide once, has this entered the Guinness record of police files?

If the reporter (HT. 07.10.2011) is to be believed, then Hazare’s association with communal and anti-national hoodlums might as well be construed as an act of extremism directed against a democratically elected government. 

It only reveals a lack of ethics within.  Then is Hazare corrupt to the core. So why fight a menace that is already within. Why not do introspection?

On 30.01.2011 a conclave consisting of highly placed and renowned personalities from reputed, wealthy and top echelons of Indian national fabric hailing from every nook and corner of Indian sub-continent, came together in their bid to raise the pitch for ridding the nation of a high-riding menace called corruption. It was a genuine gesture by a few dedicated citizens of a free India with neither craze for publicity nor a ‘mahatma fame’. 

But shockingly enough hardly had the enthusiasm by these dedicated souls of a progressive nation died down than on 5^th April, 2011, Kisan Baburao Hazare turned the same uproar a five star event by deciding to undertake a fast unto death. But it was all the more shocking to witness the same agitation turning in to a drama of ‘fast unto death’ by the same veteran of unknown fame on 16^th August, 2011 which had the government come down heavily on him and his worthless supporters.

India is a multi-lingual, multi-cultured, multi-faceted, multi-pronged, multi-farious nation teaming with 1.3 billion people aspiring to see the country progress distinctly on the lines and dreams of thousands of sincere souls who cherished the notion of seeing the nation on the rails of progress and distinction. 

Kisan Baburao Hazare is gradually showing his true self up. A frustrated person who may have swindled as many people in many ways than one, got his sleeves ready to be rolled up for a fast in an attempt to blackmail a democratically elected government and boost his sagging image. The government saved him from dying a worthless death and allowed him a year or so in his Gandhian cap.

Hazare is a blot and a curse come upon the integrity and oneness of India.  All the drama of ‘fast unto death’ he undertook only belittled the nation, the people and the system which boasts of being the largest democracy, racing to attain the peak of a super power status. All the while, a team of little known, sulky, peevish and self-centered hot heads attempted to steal the show, herded on by a 7^th standard school dropout. 

Incidentally, people who know of wrongs committed by Hazare be it as a teen or as a lousy and dull youngster at school or even at his profession running around selling flowers on the road after he forsook school or even as a driver in the military or a free man in the village in the guise of social worker, either dread or are afraid to speak up for fear of reprisal by the very communal elements that have backed his stubbornness to the hilt. After abandoning school, Hazare sold flowers and not virtues and no person, the least of all Hazare himself, can claim to be unblemished from guilt but for a gain which here meant a halo of undeserving dimension viz. ‘mahatma’. But his past stands to haunt his future fame as he is on record having used force through his gandhian hoodlums to smash up liquor dens. Some of these were drunk and they were tied to pillars and flogged by Hazare himself. Such brazen acts ominously expose the wreck behind Hazare who lacks dynamism, logic and forbearance.  Mahatma Gandhi, he ought to know was an angel par excellence in whose footsteps not even Hazare’s shadow would dare to trod.

The blackmailer Anna even turned a wild bull calling himself a Gandhian but acting bullish or degrading the Prime Minister and his council of Ministers even becoming authoritarian which democracy does not stand for. If this is his true self, then why should India trust a person who could turn a hooligan tomorrow to the detriment of the nation and people who seem to be trusting him?

Democracy calls for discussion and consensus not blackmail and authoritarianism. If this person cannot think in a broad sense and come up with a better solution than degrading elected representatives of people, then he had better get the hell back to his village to die a faster death than a fast unto death.

Corruption is a menace but people who are menace themselves cannot claim to be a Gandhian fit enough to dispel a menace from a country of over 1.3 billion. Give him place and let him go.

There have been rumblings within the opposition especially the NDA. Grabbing power has been the forte of BJP and NDA combine. And how should a nation trust the NDA combine including the communal party namely the BJP or the communal and Hindu extremist outfits such as the RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, Ram Sena etc to uphold a corruption-free propaganda to safeguard the national ethos and heritage where they themselves lack in qualities needed to hold the nation together, a nation of diverse communities with a populace estimated at 1.3 billion spread out in 28 states and 7 union territories?  No wonder, the communal party namely the BJP is quietly and complacently nibbling in to a dreary sense of national governance with the backing of this illiterate and unsteady individual in the person of Kisan Baburao Hazare.

And how does this fake and sulking monster and outfit of Ralegaon Siddhi (Maharashtra) dare to dethrone the national party of Mahatma Gandhi fame? Is he not the same school drop out of yester years who failed to scale the educational peak?  Be that what it may,  the killer germs from Hazare’s garbage are rearing their monstrous head.

By all logic and conclusions, Hazare is a failure who can do nothing right for a nation of India’s size?  We have not elected this specie called Hazare, nor is he the chosen one of 1.3 billion. What the people need to bear in mind is that the nation is well on its rails steered by a duly elected government doing its term.

Transparency International rates India in 87th place on the most corrupt countries, according to a 2010 survey. 

Donning a white cap and a linen to shroud you around, does not in any manner make one a Gandhian. Hazare to his own dismay and a propitious government engaged in the welfare of a people, found it expedient to enact a mahatma for attaining a fame and status which Gandhi alone earned by dint of God Almighty’s predilection. With hardly any education to his credit to qualify for a moral background, Hazare today s pining away in to eternity unaware of the fact that the government and people whom he himself betrayed did not, whereas, to his own misfortune, he himself exposed his worthlessness when he parted ways to fast on his own, in to a death which too parted ways to leave him in the lurch.