What should we Indians cry more for- Unprincipled Politicians or Ignorant Voters?

I thought there would be a threshold after which every politician in India will realize that he/she shouldn’t stoop to the level after which it will become too obvious for everyone that he/she has only his/her personal interest in mind and he / she doesn’t give a damn about this country of 1.2 Billion people. After watching the FDI in multi brand retail debate drama and seeing how politicians have changed their color during the whole issue makes me sick & terrified about future of my beloved nation in hands of such politicians. The way Congress has got support of Mulayam & Mayawati on FDI issue makes me wonder if Mulayam & Mayawati at all understand what FDI in multi brand retail means. Mulayam claims to have RamManohar Lohiaji as his ideal and enjoys large number of poor muslim’s support & similarly Mayawati enjoys support of many of Dalits who saw her as hope which will change their destiny. Mayawati wasn’t able to change destiny of Dalits but I think she has made sure that her destiny has really got changed. Mulayam also knows that its Muslims in large numbers who own lots of small shops in large numbers and are going to be affected by this decision of granting foreign control in Multibrand retail. Still these two politicians have gone against their own vote bank and declared their support for FDI in multi brand retail.

I am not against FDI per se. FDI in high technology areas, infrastructure segment, vehicle development, tourism & big industrial applications should be welcomed and needed. But FDI in retail which is really a low skill sector and sure winner of large market without much effort is surrender of our economic interest and food supply chain to foreigners. The amount of easy money which is going to be generated is not going to be used in India’s development but it will fill the foreign coffers. Let me give you another example. Mughal’s were foreigners but after first generation of Babur, they became Indian. Mughal’s ruled India for 250+ years but since they had nowhere else to go besides India, all money generated with in India was used with in India. Compare this to British India. British ruled us in totality for 90 years after 1857 defeat of Indians. As per the Economist Magazine data India was second richest country in whole world till 1850s and was contributing approximately 30% of World’s GDP. What happened in next 90 years after 1857 is for all to see. British made India a raw material producing nation; they manufactured outside India and dumped their foreign goods on us.  Whatever they earned, they took it to Britain and result was India became one of the world’s poorest countries and Britain is still one of the world’s richest countries. Is it so hard for our esteemed politicians to understand that FDI in multi brand retail isn’t a successful story anywhere in the world. Even in US super stores like Walmart are held responsible for many of manufacturing job losses from US to China.

All the arguments given by Congress for allowing FDI in multibrand retail are bogus. The multi brand retail FDI never helps the local farmer as when purchasing power becomes concentrated in hands for few super stores, farmers are forced to bear losses as Guardian newspaper recently found out in UK. Building up cold storage facility is government’s responsibility so instead of opening up that sector and developing infrastructure, Congress opted for selling nation to foreigners. It’s Congress which is responsible for mess in our infrastructure sector as they are ones who ruled independent India 85% of the time. I think Congress has chosen this way first to suppress bribery related issues in Walmart’s ongoing India operations and secondly to bring black money of its leaders from outside India.

If Congress can get its way in toxic decision of passing multi brand retail FDI than as an Indian you should be worried about two major factors; one is of unprincipled politics and the other is of ignorant voters. But decision to cry more on any of them is not going to yield any results as this is a case of “quid pro quo”. These two factors feed on each other and in end we get result of Mulayam & Mayawati. In my opinion, from now onwards the male Chameleon in India should be called Mulayam & the female Chameleon should be called Mayawati. Personal interest of getting exposed by CBI can bring two arch enemies like Mulayam & Mayawati together but they can never come together for betterment of India as whole. Its such a pity that we have to bear politicians like Karunanidhi, Mulayam, Mayawati & Sharad Pawar, who oppose this FDI at their state level but support Congress in bringing it at center level. Their double speak is so obvious but there are high chances that they would again be elected by ignorant masses of India.

I am simply amazed by arrogance of Congress in many issues. They justify the same crime when they do it and create a hue and cry when they find it was from any opposition member. The way they have pushed aside Vadra corruption, brought back Abhishek Manu SInghvi to news channels even after his shameful sexual expose on TV, arrogance of Gandhi family members of treating India as their personal property, indulging in unimaginable diatribe against institutions like supreme court, CAG, CVC and others, indulging in open corruption and loot and still ruling India is beyond my imagination. There is something seriously wrong with us Indians that we let these thugs & cheats rule us for so long.

Few days ago, Manmohan Singh, just like some sage, has opened my eyes to a new wonder as he says money doesn’t grow on trees & poor me was always thinking that it does. Till two weeks ago when MMS’s golden words enlightened me, I didn’t understand why my father was working so hard when we could have plucked the green leaves money from home grown "MoneyPlant" which is so common in every Indian home. Perhaps MMS, like his knowledge of economics, got confused that people of India are really thinking that MoneyPlant is not actual "Money" plant. As per Congress we Indians are still thinking of Moneyplant as actual “Money” plant and this thinking is coming in our understanding of financial mess that this government has created by recklessly spending on unproductive schemes like MNREGA, NRHM, Food Security, policy paralysis and doing mega corruption scams. Perhaps the bureaucrat robot economist must ask this question first that who is responsible for all this mess. He can lavishly spend hundreds of crores on putting advertisement of even a dog of Gandhi family, Pratibha Patil taking her all distance relatives on foreign tours and spending 7200 INR per plate on UPA anniversary dinner but he has objection on why middle class and poor Indians are having more than 6 cylinders per year for cooking their everyday meal. He conveniently blocks Gujarat’s proposal of taking gas pipelines in most of the cities and thereby saving lots of money sales, distribution & bottling operations but has no trouble in allowing wasteful expenditure and running such a big, bloated and fat government which just eats up revenue in corruption and Sonia’s medical (I doubt it) trips abroad.   

If anyone has listened to boring his monologue, he says all these things in such a robotic fashion that I now really admire how much Sonia has trained him to carry out any order that she wants to implement.  I think MMS & Madam’s Congress still think that Indians are living in 1950s mentality and they can still rule the ignorant masses. When we have this type of corrupt people ruling India, who can go to any length for supporting stupid arguments, then it’s time for India to stand up against such insensitive & corrupt rulers.

It’s through mega Congress scams that India has lost so much revenue, it’s through their shortsightedness we have plunged in this economic crisis and when the time has come for sacrifice they are sacrificing the common Indian people's interest. FDI in retail is a disastrous move. It has already been proven in many countries that it leads to lots of unemployment for small business owners. If you have been to USA, you must have seen how Walmart type stores function. They sell in economies of scale and have very deep pockets to suffer loss to wipe out competition from any vendor. To sell cheap food items they do lots of contract farming for meat, chicken and other agricultural food items. To grow it on mass scale they use different types of seeds and feed animals with different type of diet so that they become fatter in short time. Since it is not natural growth such type of food produce becomes not so healthy for common people.  

FDI in retail is not needed as retail sell is low skill sector, any Indian company can do it and money generated will remain in India. Indian companies like Big Bazar and others are already doing it. Its low skill sector and why you want to make big foreign retail monsters to make big money out of low skilled sector. You need FDI in many hi tech or capital intensive sectors like Infrastructure but inspite of all his knowledge of economics this MMS is not able to do that. FDI in agriculture was done few years ago and how many companies do you see investing in agriculture? It’s time now to tell MMS & Congress's SICKular thugs that votes also don’t grow on trees, wake up Indians, Everyone knows that Congress survives on manipulation of media and are expert in diverting attention from the main cause. I know they have done it to start parliament in next session so that BJP can’t boycott the parliament now as it was doing on Coalgate scam in which PM was also involved. Kishor Biyani is not spokesperson of common Indian retailer. I don’t think we need FDI in low skill sector, creating infrastructure is what government’s job and it can have a different policy for that. If Congress doesn’t have any concrete steps in that direction than it shows what kind of economist MMS is. No one kills humans to make bridge to cross some river so that they can cultivate land on other side, by allowing FDI in multibrand retail Congress has crossed all its limits.

Now I might get arrested under section IT ACT 66A for writing what I have written as I have caused enough “annoyance” now. I wonder when Congress Media Managers are going to ask for ban on growing moneyplant in Indian homes like they did for twitter and Facebook, as MMS thinks moneyplants are spreading illusion in people and they do not understand his sound logic of India being in financial distress. MMS was never in control and if you remember the shirtless protest he faced few months ago, he didn’t even mention shirtless protest in his speech and started reading the pre written words like a robot. I think Sonia has trained her poodle well who is just good at carrying one task at a time like a robot. FDI In Retail, FDI in Aviation, Hike in diesel Prices, Hike in Gas Cylinder Prices well Dear Washington Post don’t criticize MMS, next time he will declare a war against China to prove he is active and in control. This is height of Congress arrogance where they are doing everything against poor people & common man’s interest and still claiming they are representing common man’s interest.

I am now becoming a bigger Narendra Modi supporter by each passing day and propagate slogan of “Ek Hi Vikalp -Modi”. I am just waiting for humiliating defeat of Congress in Gujarat elections and we can see Narendra Modi riding that wave to become PM of India in near future. Till than I think we all have to suffer Congress & its Chameleons!! 

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

UPA Won Trust Vote Using Corrupt Thugs : Who is Responsible?

The UPA and “Honest” Manmohan Singh won trust vote in parliament. My head wants itself to be buried deep with shame as I see what kind of corrupt thugs are ruling this great nation of ours. I wasn’t feeling like writing for quite some time even though many burning issues caught my attention like Baba Amarnath Land Transfer or hiking the creamy layer limit for OBCs or defeat of CPM in local body polls. I thought what I can do by just writing some piece in blog. Who is going to read that even if I write truth there? But as always it’s the only way I can remove frustrations from inside. I watched with horror and disgust some MPs throwing 3 crore cash inside parliament and telling us all that its bribe money given to them by Amar Singh of SP for just being absent from trust vote.

A sickening disgusting chill ran though my spinal cord and I started wondering whats wrong with us Indians as a society. A society which is producing so many corrupt leaders, A society which doesn’t give any value to merit, a society which just remains a mute spectator of extortion of the powerless by powerful, a society which is just running behind money and not thinking about the ways to get that, a society which reads scriptures, goes to temples, churches, mosques and gurudwaras daily but don’t hesitate in doing heinous crimes for sake of power and money, a society which doeant believe in paying taxes honestly and cry when they see some politicians or officials making tons of money through corrupt means, a society which just believes in getting its work done for railway tickets, passports, driving licenses, water and electricity connections by paying bribes, a society which worships women as gods in various forms but still kill someone’s daughters and sisters for dowry and the unborn girl child, a society which can spend hundreds of rupees on pizzas, multiplex movies but shy away from feeding empty stomach of less fortunate, a society which looks down upon people who earn their honest living by working as laborer, gardener, waiter, vegetable vendor and domestic helps as if they are not human enough to have that self respect, a society which just cares about someone who has money and power but never worries about their means to get that money. We have become a big society of hypocrites where moral values and merit doesn’t count for anything. Where the one who says truth to be told keep quite or made silent by murders or threats.

I know we all know about this but my problem is we all are not doing anything about this. Infact why I am telling you all, I myself is not doing anything about it. Its so disgusting to even think about what type of people are ruling us and being made important by this stupid electronic and print media. The likes of Lalus, Mulayams, Amar Singhs who are nose deep in corruption are being projected as savior of masses. One day one of these will become prime minister and than only god knows whats going to happen to India. These politicians have enough money to protect the government but I am sure these fellows don’t have money to spend on food for empty stomachs, drinking water, electricity, health care and roads for millions of poor of this nation. But I don’t blame these politicians. Its us the common masses are the only people to blame. We have allowed ourselves to be manipulated by these corrupt thugs on basis of caste, community and religion. These corrupt thugs are product of this hypocrite and corrupt society of ours and unless the morality content of common people of India is going to increase, I am sure we are going to be ruled by people which this society deserves.

All these corrupt thugs are not aliens from Mars. They are from among us. Its us who are responsible for this mess around us. Unless we as a society do something about this we are doomed to see many more Amar Singhs, Mulayams and Lalus ruling us. Arise and Awake.. Take destiny of this great nation in your hand.. Don’t think that you are not going to affected by these corrupt politicians. We as a society have become so mentally bankrupt that unless someone is going to kill or harass some of our own family member, we think that we don’t have any problem in our country. Today it may be your neighbor but tomorrow its going to be your turn and at that time please don’t expect anyone to come and help you. You have to deal with that problem like your neighbor whom you left alone in their struggle. Unless we are going to think every Indian as our neighbor we are going to be doomed as a nation.

Vande Mataram
Hemant Dubey