Is this the Democracy Which Our Honorable Parliamentarians Want To Protect From Likes Of Anna Hazare & Baba Ramdev?

The often quoted definition of democracy is “Democracy is the rule of the people, by the people and for the people.” But when I see current situation in India, I feel that Abraham Lincoln should have clearly defined what he meant by “the people” like who are these “people”, who would be ruling, whom they would be ruling and for whom. Like so many other things, I think majority of Indian politicians have taken advantage of ambiguity in Lincoln’s quote and defined “the people” as their own family, relatives and friends. So the new improvised version of Lincoln’s definition in Indian context has become something like “Democracy is the rule of the family, relatives and friends, by the family, relative and friends, for the family, relative and friends.” I am not joking as when you see Mulayam & his family enjoying the exploits in UP, Gandhis in Center, YSR’s Son Jagan in AP, Yediyurappa and his family in Karnatak, Farukh Abdullah in J&K, Badal’s in Punjab, Karunanidhi in TamilNadu, Lalu in Bihar, Sangma’s in Meghalay, Thackreys, Pawars & Chauhans in Maharashtra, Hoodas & Chautalas in Haryana and you will soon realize that democracy has got a new name and form in India and it’s called “Famocracy”.  Doesn’t is sound like some remote Middle Eastern / African country’s ruling system? The way we are being governed by few corrupt families and their well-wishers, we will soon have worse situation for common masses and life will become more difficult. It’s sad but true reality of Today’s India.

Mulayam talks about being an ardent follower of Ram Manohar Lohia’s socialism but all I can see how busy he is in promoting his own dynasty rule. Lohiaji who remained unmarried, never had any bank balance and opposed the dynastic rule till his death must be agitated in heavens by what all Mulayam is doing in his name. The most wonderful thing of Mualayam was, his daughter in law getting elected unopposed in recent elections for MP in Kannauj parliamentary constituency, which was vacated because her husband and Mulayam’s son became Chief Minister of UP. The Mulayam’s form of democracy should be adopted all over the India so that the general public doesn’t have to face inconvenience of going to the voting booth and all the MPs can get elected on some or other arrangements where no one fights elections against anyone and everyone gets elected unopposed. It will save more money from public exchequer (your and my money- if you are an honest taxpayer), prevent infusion of black money in economy and we won’t have to suffer from endless public debates, exit polls and noise pollution for so many days. I think all parties including Congress, BJP and BSP must have decided that in the interest of common public good they shouldn’t fight elections against Mulayam’s daughter in law and by doing that they have shown a new way of democracy to the whole world. But I wonder how this is different from election of some ruthless dictator in sub-Saharan African country, who gets 99% of votes or from election of Saddam Hussain in Iraq?

There are so many criminal cases of serious charges like murder, rape and corruption against so many of honorable parliamentarians and they say that they want to save democracy from autocratic people like Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev!! Any politician who says things like this must have few qualities like habit of indulging into verbal diarrhea like Digvijay Singh, skin as thick as rhinos, character as weak as ND Tiwari, lying habits as great as Nirmal Baba and Kapil Sibal, corruption habits as good as Spectrum Raja and Sharad Pawar, networking habit as good as Nira Radia, communal as good as Akbaruddin Owaisi, castist as good as Lalu & Maya, Regionalist as good as Karunanidhi, Secularist as good as Mulayam, Barkha Dutt & Arundhati Roy, very good in hiding all sources of black money of their masters like Pranab Mukharjee, enjoy all power without accountability like Gandhi Family and above all still saying you are innocent while the biggest scam happen under your rule like Manmohan Singh. Once any politician achieves this state in India, he will have the “Buddha Moment” and will become enlighten about different way of fooling the general public and making huge money for family, relatives and friends.

These honorable MPs and politicians who haven’t hesitated in eating fodder meant for animals, claim that the biggest threat to the great Indian democracy comes from an unmarried 74 years old former armyman, a former IRS officer, a patriotic unmarried Sanyasi, a decorated former IPS Lady Officer and millions of educated and young middle class Indians like you and me. Perhaps the political class and their cronies in TV & print news media need to understand that the biggest threat to democracy comes when handful of corrupt people start twisting the system to suit their own needs, when the murders, corrupts and criminals go unpunished just because they have money and power while the poor and helpless are denied the justice and forced to pay bribe to get their work done. It’s so easy to understand but our honorable politicians & their cronies have insatiable desire to earn more and more which doesn’t get satisfied by amassment of billions of dollars in Swiss Banks which they can’t even count properly as there are so many zeros involved.

As you have seen the Mulayam form of democracy is not good for common Indian Public, because we will be denied all the chances of growth and opportunities while the likes of Mulayam and his cronies will flourish on our expense. The Mulayam form of democracy is so treacherous that you will be eating your words just after announcing in full public view press conference that Shri Abdul Kalam is his first choice for president of India. After few hours he cut some deal in his favor with Sonia and backtracks from his words and giving complex to likes of Mir Jafars and Jay Chands of Indian History. This Mulayam form of Democracy was actually started by Gandhis and Nehrus and sustained by all other politicians who saw its merit. They jointly deny the common masses the chance to be the participants in India’s story and corner all the butter for themselves and their cronies. That’s why they invent new issues of dividing the society in different ways and keep their rule relevant by following the divide & rule policy of British. Irony is we wanted the freedom from British for the same reasons and still our own people are behaving the same way.

I wonder sometimes that was this the India for which likes of Chandrashekhar Azad, Bose, Bhagat Singh, Sardar Patel and Lala Lajpat Rai fought against the British and gave their life?  I am an eternal optimist and I still believe that all is not lost. We have few shining examples like Narendra Modiji, VajpayeeJi, Naveen Patnaik and Nitish Kumar who are doing real good work and keep the faith of common Indians like me alive in real democracy. If we Indians really want to make the real definition of Lincoln’s democracy true in India we all need to play our part and teach a lesson to all the corrupts by voting against them and rising against injustice. Let’s take pledge to make India the place which the real patriots like Vivekanand dreamed of and make their dream our own reality. 

Vande Mataram

Terrorism and Other Common Problems In India and Their Solutions

Terrorism, by now every Indian might be knowing what its all about, since we are the worst sufferer along with Israel of this phenomenon. We have lost our countless citizens, lots of soldiers and two prime ministers and billions of dollars to this philosophy of hate. Terrorism is very much different from any regular crime or riots since its always based of a particular ideology. This ideology is based on philosophy of two separate groups one is of so called oppressor and second is self assumed oppressed. Its a continuous cycle in which the oppressed is often funded by enemy countries, which feed them with all means to carry out their inhuman acts in name of religion, race or political oppression. In almost all cases the so called oppressed is motivated by religion or race, you can see it in case of Islamic terrorism and African tribal wars.

Before WW-2 we have seen lots of freedom struggles, which were against the colonial rulers all over the world. But these colonial rulers especially English, have left deep scars on all nations soul which they have ruled in past. Many terrorist activities that you see today are because of these scars which refuse to heal.

The undeclared war going on between India and Pakistan or the declared war between African tribes are outcome of British divide and rule policy, where they sow the seed of deep division in citizens mind. Promoting false superiority complex in communities on basis of castes, color and religion and keeping them divided so that they can never pose a united threat to their rule. And its sad to say that they have been succeeded in this. For this success we are paying with the blood of innocents till now.

Israel Arab conflict is also a gift of Britain to the world, when British started leaving countries they have occupied after World War 2; they started dividing them on the basis of religion and race. Almost all countries under British rule saw division and this division wasnt most of the times for good. I think British took some maps and just drew some vertical and horizontal lines without keeping the cultural and tribal aspects in mind. They never thought what will be the outcome of these actions. All the countries are still fighting with each other over something or other. Why British did it just before they were leaving still wonders me a lot. So the past was in hand of British but present is in our hand and if we keep crying for the past we are for sure going to miss the present and subsequently future. So its better to start worrying about present and have a foundation for good future.

Terrorism and corruption are become biggest problems which Indians are facing today. They are the only two road blocks in Indias path to success and reclaim its past glory. They are the root causes since because of corruption we are having problems like lack of primary education, infrastructure, lack of all civic facilities, deforestation, power shortage and all other problems except security threats. They are all related to corruption since because of that only all the money which is allotted to these things just goes in vain. This problem can only be tackle by good public support and awareness. If all Indians decide that they wont pay bribe to get any of their work done in RTOs and other govt departments, it can be curbed to a great extent. The govt employee corruption can be controlled by tough laws and fast track courts to deal specifically to corruption related issues. One most important thing will be introduction of moral teachings at higher educational level. This moral corruption of India is root cause where conscious doesnt feel the guilt of taking bribe to do the job. The definition of honest and dishonest has got changed over the years. Now dishonest is the one who even after taking money doesnt do your job. And honest person has become an endangered species, about whom you are just going to listen in stories after few more years. This moral corruption has to be eradicated if we have to achieve developed India by 2020.

Second is terrorism. Terrorism in India as we all know is basically funded by Pakistan and Saudi petrol money. Bangladesh and Pakistani jehadi elements were main executioner of this low intensity war. But they have found lots of local support from home grown jehadi elements like SIMI, PDF (Madani) in Kerala, MIM (Hyderabad), terrorists in north east India and Muslim youths who are misguided by some fanatic mullahs, who are thinking of bringing India into dar ul Islam part of the world. When the terrorism in India was solely in Pakistans area of interest, it would have been somewhat easy for us to tackle this threat since it was limited to Kashmir only but after 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai this pattern got changed and now with the help of home grown fanatics, terrorism is hurting deep inside India.

Terrorists are not sparing anyone, they are attacking temples, educational institutions, trains, crowded market places or any thing by which they can show that they have capability to bleed India, if not cut it in one go. They just want maximum damage to be done and for this they are crossing all the limits of humanity.

All the terrorism in India has its main source in Pakistan. So in my view if we want to tackle terrorism, the root cause has to be fought, we have to follow a bottom up approach to solve this problem. By this approach I mean to say that we have to cut the source of funding and training which are basically in Pakistan. We know for sure that Pakistan voluntarily wont give them up. We have to pressurize Pakistan to do this. This can be done in various ways. The best comes in my mind is to give Pakistan taste of its own medicine. We have to wage a low intensity war in Pakistan like they are doing in Kashmir. All four major states of Pakistan are having trouble with each other. Pakistani military and administrative services are full of people from Pakistani Punjab. Other 3 portions of Pakistan dont like this phenomenon as Pakistani Punjab is becoming prosperous at the cost of other three states specially Baluchistan and Sindh. I havent included NWFP as this portion doesnt have much to offer.

As we have experience from Bangladesh and other Islamic countries religion only cant be basis of a nation. There are cultural, economical and other political factors to be considered while building up a nation. As in case of India we are becoming more dependable on each other economically so by every day the north south east west divide is becoming thinner. This increase of interdependency and peoples movement has given India stability and will of a nation. There are other issues to be resolved like language but those are becoming secondary as English is taking prominent position in business and official communication. Aryan invasion theory is also proven to be false so the great Aryan Dravidian divide is not present at bigger scale and after sometime with more evidence this divide will eventually go.

But Pakistans case is different as you rarely see a democracy there. Democracy gives voices to citizens which is most important factor of any nations survival which is as diverse as India. Pakistan is ruled and always going to be ruled by military either direct or through proxies. This military is dominated by Pakistani Punjab officers and here we have chance. India should adopt pro active approach towards disintegration of Pakistan in four parts. You can hear the news about tribal folks in Baluchistan are fighting against Pakistani Army. We just have to ignite it more. Make them fight with each other so that they dont have time to think on what is going on in India. As far as nuclear arsenal of Pakistan is concerned, I think US will take care of that. We should station some of our troops in Afghanistan to build pressure on Pakistans military so that they have Indian forces on both sides of their border. This is going to be quite uncomfortable for Pakistani military.

I am against all out open war against Pakistan as this is going to hurt Indias economy and will destroy all the progress we have made in last 20 years. Since Pakistan also has capability to fire its missiles deep inside India. So the open war is not going to be fought on borers like previous wars. Its going to destroy our homes and cities in India and strengthen Pakistani generals in their control over Pakistan. Damage involved is too much and we should avoid a direct conflict.

Simultaneously we should keep our focus to our own home grown and fed Osamas and build up strong political will to call spade a spade. Bring some tough laws and enforce them effectively to deal with those who support terrorism. There should be a real zero tolerance for those who are involved in anti national acts. The punishment should be so severe that it should act as a lesson for those who are willing to follow this anti national path by citing religious, regional, lingual or caste reasons. Find the mad dog before it bites and kill or atleast keep it separated from rest of the population.

This is all going to happen only when we Indians understand our duties for the nation. When we understand that this is our motherland to which we have to serve by all means available. The educated middle class has to come out on voting day to vote instead going for a picnic as on holidays. They have to educate the poor masses and make them understand the correct use of their voting power, so that no single vote would be cast in name of religion, castes and languages and every vote is meant for those who stands for development of India and its all citizens. I hope this day come soon so that we can give our next generation proud of getting birth in the Jagat Guru of the world once again. Come together, we all have to work in this direction. We can and we will reclaim Indias golden past.

Vande Mataram