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
Vande Mataram
