Okay, Arnab has poured in 100 Kg, Barkha
has poured 50 Kg, Deepak Chaurasiya has thrown 10 Kg, Ashutosh has consumed his
quota, so he moved on to the other side and rest all are continuing with their
share of words on three probable PM candidates and the possibilities of
government formation with 16th Lok Sabha. Hence, I thought, let me
also put my meagre 100 gms in the ongoing debate.
We know the supporters of respective
candidates have their calculations and/or opinion polls ready for their claims.
So, let’s assume, one of these Gentleman would be the next PM of India,
irrespective of whatever they are going to dish out in their manifestos such as
good governance, corruption free India or Tarakki (progress) for everyone, what
else is going to change in our beloved country, India. We all know, how good
our leaders are in fulfilling their promises and claims made in election
manifestos be it for an Aam Aadami or Khas Aadami.
Let’s assume whosoever is elected and
selected (considering the compulsions of coalition politics) and fortunately for
our country’s sake, fulfil his promises. But, will it make any change on our
society in terms of how judgmental we are, how quickly we make opinion about
things and our all-time favourite, issuing character certificates based on
shallow assumptions. We easily say, due to poor law enforcement, more rapes are
happening and we went to the extent of naming our national capital as “Rape
Capital”. In a society where age of victim as well as rapist is not a criteria
(we have victim of the age of 1 year to rapist in the age of 70+), how much
covered or exposed the female is not a criteria for rapist to select their
victims.
We talk of corruption in government
offices, but isn’t corruption equally rampant in private sector, within the
organizations, there are people who misuse their power and resources but since
no RTI is applicable there, hence it is easily swept under the carpet. So why,
single out the corruption of a police constable or Municipal Corporation’s
clerk. There are enumerable cases of sexual assault and corruption in private
sector organizations, but majority of them are either unnoticed or cleared of
with some mild punishment, as it happened recently in the case of Great
Crusader of female rights, Tarun Tejpal. Here again, the corruption is at all
levels, and the logic that lesser wages (defense argument for government
sector) is also defied here since most of the private sector executives are
better paid than their counterparts in government sector.
Last but not the least and the longer point
I would like to highlight is that will you:
- stop breaking traffic rules or
- stop the practice of big fat Indian wedding (That money can be used for noble causes and huge wastage can be controlled) or
- start following all procedures in public places or
- start treating woman as a woman rather than a sex machine or dishes served in a buffet (as described by the Greatest singer/composer/lyricist SHRI SHRI YO YO HONEY SINGHJI MAHARAJ in his song Pajama Party)
- start behaving as an Indian rather than being racist to citizens of our own country or let me put other way that stop treating humans as humans rather than Marathi/Biharis/Mallus/Idli-Dosa/Roshogulla/Punjabi/Chowmein or Hubshis (slang used for people from African countries – used by an elected representative of Delhi). ENOUGH!
if the next PM of our country is of your
choice.
We Indians are very bad at following rules
or let me put it other way, we get a sense of achievement when we break a rule
of law. We follow rules only if there is a monetary penalty for not following
it. So, idea behind my 100 gms, is that first we need to learn self-discipline,
behave like a better human being, a responsible citizen, before aligning
ourselves politically and starting the cacophony in favour of our respective
choices. Our lack of awareness, disrespect for law and I AM ALWAYS RIGHT
attitude has forced us in present state. We allowed them to misuse ourselves
for our petty objectives, we gave them power and naturally if we are giving
power without accountability, corruption is going to flourish.
No doubt, we are a democratic country and
we have every right to incline ourselves politically and to even express it
(limited beauty of our democracy). But, also need to understand responsibility
before right (it follows the same sequence in dictionary too). Our political
inclinations must be after the national and human priorities. Citizens from the
countries which boast of stable political system and less corrupt governance
performs really well on above issues or may be other way round, take a cue from
them, Mitron J.
P. S: Hope my 100 grams weren’t too heavy
on you and apologies for mentioning the racist words used in common language to
put my point.
