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Why must the clever vixen of the meddling
media and muddling political sharp shooters cross the limits
of sanity and credibility in inventing new anddisgusting
vilest and rackets when they are short of serious issues and
refuse to see realities. The new report-card racket, launched
by the perverted geniuses of the Indian politics, is an
absolute proof of that absolute insanity and insolence, as I
see it. I was full of disgust and dismay when I saw reports in
newspapers of some adventurers issuing report cards to Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and his Government at the completion
of the UPA coalition government’s first year in office. Some
gave the Prime Minister and his government two marks, some
three, some four and the more generous ones gave six out of
ten. But for heaven’s sake, please tell what are your
credentials and credibility for issuing such report-cards and
what is your own record in the areas in which you operate and
also those in which you interfere.
These report cadres of
today who have suddenly sprung up like moths around the summer
street lights, are buzzing happily with their own nauseating
bumble buzz. They seem to be creatures with voices but no
eyes. Their memories seem to be very short and hazy. I have
seen and known several Prime Ministers of India. The long and
distinguished list would include Lal Bahadur Shastri, Morarji
Desai, Indira Gandhi, Charan Singh, Chandra Shekhar, V.P.
Singh, Rajiv Gandhi, Narasimha Rao, Deve Gowda, Atal Bihari
Vajpayee, Has anyone ever give report cards to these
distinguished Indians who have contributed in their own way in
making India what it is today. Can one of them take all the
credit and some other all the discredit? Except for the pet
wolves of the party zoos and cages, none would be silly and
vicious enough to disgrace, disrepute and deface the great
land of their birth just because they are suffering from
‘holier than thou attitude’ complex.
As apolitical and
unbiased mind, one sees that we have Dr. Manmohan Singh, the
man who designed the economic recovery of India as a former
finance minister making one breakthrough after another on
national and international economic and political front. The
country saw some of the greatest world leaders visiting India
and seeking a relationship of friendship and cooperation. We
saw India and its Prime Minister being chosen to represent
Asia at the revival of the Afro-Asian Non-aligned movement. We
saw several confidence building measures taking shape between
India and Pakistan, with even President Musharraf of Pakistan
going through a change of heart and having good vibes with the
Indian Prime Minister, slowly, one by one and step by step in
his own way. Without claiming much credit and without making
much political noise, he has been introducing measures that
would bring about efficiency, speed and accountability in
governance that would give a visible and human face to the
bureaucracy ridden officialdom.
The great gangs of
wiremen on the right and left must account for themselves too.
What right do they have to issue report cards to others when
their own report cards are full of zeros on all fronts? There
are those who block the functioning of the democratic system
and then question its progress. There are others who refuse to
take responsibility but want to retain control of the
government to suit their political designs and want to force
the government to obey their dictates for creating their kind
of development projects which they would not impose in states
run by their parties.
May I suggest that
politicians, never mind what parties in the ruling or the
opposition coalition or front they belong to have no business
to disrupt democracy and denigrate the country to suit their
political vested interests, Perverse attitudes from media and
politics must go. Like the cat who closes its eyes when
drinking stolen milk, please do not close your eyes to
corruption practice and crime in politics, judiciary and
bureaucracy which your pettifogging politics has ever
encouraged. For God’s sake adopt at least an MCD programme –
Minimum Common Decency Programme, that is if you do believe in
things like decency and honesty in politics.
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