Many (Indian)politician's nightmare has just begun! They never imagined it possible for the people of the country to even think of rising agaisnt the ruling class (opposition included). But that is what has just happened on the evening of 27th Aug 2011. August seems to be India's best month, starting from 1947! May be there are more august Augusts in between that I am not aware of!
There were many educated, intelectual, forward thinking superior class of people putting forward their arguments against Anna, his principles, his past, his philosophy, his means, and his.....what not!
Any ordinary person would have been convinced of those arguments. But Anna and his team do not belong to that 'high class'.
With 100% belief in what they were doing, they continued. The fast was in two parts, in between to be interupted by Baba Ramdev's fast. Just like we are made to feel that even uttering the name BJP is a sin, to a large extent many succeded in branding Baba also the same way. I personally dont agree with that, and I am sad that even team Anna seems to have subscribed to that view. Any how that is not the main topic now.
The UPA government went on many rolarcoaster moves. Was it confusion or tactical moves (do they have it?) but at the end "it was SATYAMEVA JAYATHE"
It was real fun hearing a few young congress MPS even claiming credit to what was happening. One notable found of the entire event was the emergence of a matured Varun Gandhi! Oh,how he spoke whenever he spoke! rahul is no match for this great young man. Hope BJP nurture him properly, instead of dismissing him as another Nehru family man (Not Gandhi family, as the present ruling family is projecting itself to be!)
And during varuns speech, it was funny to look at great kabil Sibal!
Personally my arguments were/are,
1) When 42 years were not sufficient for the Parliment, in what way that parliment is supreme than its people?
2) Having slept for 42 years, what right does this Congress govt has to say that 15 days is not sufficient( They claim credit for having got freedom for India, which is not correct: For example even muslim league gets credit for that, truly)
3) Is not the present PM a bagful of contradictions, having changed his stand many times, say for example in the case A Raja alone?
4) When PC stated a few weeks back, that he needs a minimum of 1 year for effectively creating a new force to monitor the coastal lines siting the procedures as one reason, does he not realise that the terrorists have no such laws preventing them to stage a much bigger attacck, say on Mumbai again? After that what will the great PC do with his force? Defend a non existing coastline?
5)Do they not understand the simple fact that a clean top only is capable of cleansing the system? It is a top down process, and not the other way, though corruption first started from bottom? How can they even think of uttering the sentence that a lokpal alone is not suficient? Then what will?
Ofcourse I agree that with the present mentality, no law can help, because they dont want a change at all, whaich is what Anna is fighting for!
In earlier days of independence, when the elected representatives were reasonably clean, corruption amongst the lower levels when started, was a sort of acceptable to the society, as every one was poor, and a poor govt servant was magnanimuosly allowed to be corrupt in a small way by the public. But in todays society that need for corruption does not exist amongst the younger generation and so they were only looking for a way to fight it! But with a ruling class that not only had the earlier mentality, but which also unfortunately had readied their second/third generations in the same way, they were unable to even imagine a life without corruption! How can the unnatural thing of the present survive? And we are seeing the result
However as Anna has stated, the fight has just begun.
We the citizens can not simply blame others alone.
We can not simply expect all others to fight, and we enjoying a corrupt life.
Every one must become a leader or Anna, instead of waiting for ever some one else to lead us for "our" life!
We can not bribe! I had the first taste of this simple fact a few months ago, when I was travelling by train. Having RAC ticket number 1, I waited for the TTE to allot me a berth. But he did not. Had I been the same old earlier person, I would have simpley bribed him Rs.100 or so and got my birth: I had decided against that, and instead of fighting with him, decided to continue my night travl sitting.
In a train that started ar 6.50 pm, he alloted me the bith almost at midnight at around 11 pm!
And should I say that not only I felt happy and slept well, but also felt on top of the world!
Jai Hind!
Vande Matharam
Bharat Matha ki Jai.
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