Most of the time when you hear Digvijay Singh, he is talking about some conspiracy or the other. One cannot see any logic in what he says. Recently, he has written to Anna Hazare and again talked about conspiracy wherein he suggests Anna’s team members are taking him for a ride. I am not much of a guy for conspiracies but I do understand logic and for a change Digvijay Singh is talking logic when he says that it does make sense that Anna Hazare is supporting (directly or indirectly) Chautala and Bhajan Lal’s sons. Anna’s strategy does not make sense. Let us assume where Anna’s strategy will take us if he is successful in replacing Congress at the centre and in all the states and replaces them with people like Chautala and Bhajan Lal’s sons? I think we would be in deeper trouble then what we are in right now. Also, this strategy of Anna also suggests that he is being vindictive and is using his new found power in a abusive manner. He did so while threatening the Parliament and the Government earlier. Now he is threatening the Congress Party. I think Anna and his team are digging a hole for themselves.
I think we should be after hearing Arvind Kejriwal say that Anna Hazare is above the Parliament. I think Arvind Kejriwal has lost it or is it arrogance talking. Of course, the citizen of the country is supposed to be the proverbial “King” and certainly above the Parliament because he actually makes the Parliament collectively with other citizens. He is above the Parliament as he can vote and change the people who form the Parliament. But no individual can dictate what the Parliament should do or not do as Anna Hazare id doing. Anna Hazare can certainly using his popularity, his views and vision to take part in the elections and control the government but try to implement his ideas and nobody can stop him. But he cannot do Dadagiri as an individual citizen. Imagine what would happen if everybody started dictating to the Parliament what it should do or not do. There would be Anarchy. We have a number of people who have a large public following including celebrities, mahatmas and even industrialists like Narayan Murthy who can go on fast and start dictating unreasonable terms to the Parliament or the government.
Anna has threatened the Congress Party by saying, “We will campaign for the defeat of Congress in UP assembly polls if the government at the Centre fails to pass the Lokpal Bill in the Winter session of Parliament.” Even though Anna has a good cause to fight for, why is he resorting to blackmail everytime. First, he went on a fast and was dictating to the members of the parliament as to how and when they should pass the Lokpal Bill. His demands were unreasonable then and no wonder he broke his fast with a face saving gesture from the government. Now he is threatening the Congress Party. What Anna is doing is undemocratic and not the right thing to do.
Today it was reported in HT that Mayawati has created three new districts of Panchsheel Nagar, Prabuddha Nagar and Bhimnagar which are at total variance with the laid out parameters for creating new districts. It seems that these districts have been created keeping the forthcoming elections in mind. I think that the matter should be investigated and if it is found that the norms have been violated and the decision has been taken not in the interest of the people, then serious action should be taken against all those involved so that similar incidents do not accur again.
I was surprised to read that Amar Singh has argued in his bail application in the cash-for-vote-scam case that since the charge sheet has stated that “there is no link of money in question with any of my bank account,” he is innocent. I don’t know from where Amar Singh is getting his logic from? Black money is that money that is not deposited in the banks. Once it is deposited in the bank, it becomes white money. People who do not have black money may withdraw small amount of cash from the bank to buy something in cash but not huge amounts as involved in the scam.
It seems the issue of corruption and Lokpal is no longer a burning issue. It is not on the radar of the media. Anna Hazare it seems will support those MPs/MLAs in elections who support his Lokpal Bill. But what good it will do. We will be electing the same politicians and the same political parties who we have been electing for the past so many years. These are the same people who make promises and then go back on the same. So what will we achieve by this proposed action of Anna? Earlier, Anna blamed the government for double crossing him and later he will blame the politicians whom he supported during the elections of double crossing him.
Economic Times reported comments of UP CM Mayawati on the Lokpal Bill as follows:
1. Civil Society members should not rely on the central government to get the Lokpal bill a reality.
Yesterday’s Times of India features an article with the heading “Anna: If govt doesn’t act, be ready for ‘jail bharo’ stir.” According to this article, Anna Hazare has said, “I have realised that fasting is not the only weapon to make the government toe the line. If the Union government does not promulgate the law before August 15, we will start a ‘jail bharo’ agitation across the country. People of this country are agitated about corruption and they need a clean government.” He further added, “We gained independence but the white rulers seem to have been replaced by brown ones. Issues like exploitation, poverty, injustice are not re¬dressed. The second freedom struggle would be for ensuring clean and pro-people administration.”
I have been saying right from the start that the path chosen by Anna Hazare’s team as well as Baba Ramdev is not going to work. I have given a number of reasons for the same.
June 6th, 2011 in
General Politics,
Law & Order,
Politicians,
What should be done?,
corruption | tags:
Anna Hazare,
Baba Ramdev,
Civil society,
corruption,
elections,
second revolution |
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Before I write what I am going to write, I want to state I hate politicians. I am not a political person in the traditional sense as we think of politicians. I am not against Baba’s cause as my website and blog are focused on how to remove corruption. I am not against the cause but I am against the method because it is not a logical approach. So you can’t shoot me for being logical.
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