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My View
LET THEM NOT KILL
THE CONSTITUTION
 Millions
in the country must be shocked, pained and ashamed of what
the political pindaries are doing to the country and to our
constitution.
In their personal greed for grabbing political crowns in states and
proving holier thou in their senseless game of one-upmanship, they have
overrun, first the sanctity of the legislatures, then the constitutional
authorities. Now the constitution will be their final victim unless the
nation rises up against the crimes of the political hypocrites of this
country.
It makes me sad that even I, who never minces words
in calling a spade, had raised the issue years ago that are the
Governors and even Chief Ministers necessary in this country? Am I today
constrained to use stronger words because I feel ashamed and betrayed by
those who know only one way to use political power, its abuse and
misuse?
There are some who feel that the Governors appointed
by the ruling coalition, led by the Congress, at present, are
advertently or inadvertently working hard to ensure that Congress packs
its bag and goes into an unhappy exile. But that would be neither the
triumph of the governors nor of the fire-spitting Congress-baiters. They
point to umpteen of skeletons in the cupboards of their political
rivals.
Never mind what one party says on other, and
how on coalition of convenience has to tarnish another coalition of
convenience. The fact remains, they all put together, a shameless
minority, holding the nation to ransom. They swear by great
personalities of their own claims who are much greater than other. But
in the final analysis, they all seem, like clay dolls with no feet at
all, to the people of India. People, their problems and the development
of India, by which they all swear aloud at the poll time, are forgotten
as soon as the requisite number of votes and seats are bagged. Then the
mandate of the masses is shamelessly betrayed and all kind of hidden
agendas and political horse-trading to scrape up clockwork orange
governments, made of Toms, Dicks and Harrys, begins.
The unedifying political farce has been witnessed in
Uttar Pradesh first following at Goa, Jharkhand, Bihar and last but not
the least in Haryana, would not be far behind. First the politics of
greed, grab and sale and purchase of shameless and immoral legislators
took the toll of the constitutional authority of the speakers, then
political appointment of political nominees of one party or another,
corroded the other constitutional authority, that of the governors. And
now, even the judiciary was being dragged into unnecessary political
mire by those for whom the country and the constitution were the last
priority.
To pack their bag of aims and claims, once in political power, even
for a few days, the political mafias did not hesitate to evoke even some
of the dead-letter. Imperial legislations of 1856 and 1889, which
ironically still remains on the statute book. Misconduct in houses of
parliament and state legislatures, defiance of the authority of the
speakers and turning the office of the governors into the office of a
district commissioner appointed by one political boss or another seemed
to be the great agenda of the great politicians of today.
Sunil Dang
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