Friday, July 18, 2008
Rethinking hope !!!
Today I got up at 8:00 AM in the morning …so it was a comparatively a late start….any way I picked up the news paper and went thru the headlines which was about the political crisis Indian government is facing ….all the fact and figures were exponentially derived by the analysts in the article but the main thing which attracted my attention were photograph of six persons who were claimed to play the key role for the future of UPA government. Currently UPA government is struggling to prove their majority in the parliament. All of them are Member of Parliament (MP) who currently are in prison. Most of them are accused of murder, gang war, illegal business and the list goes on an on, 50% of them are sentenced for life imprisonment. One of them is accused of murdering an I.A.S. officer. I was so shattered and shocked reading this, as now these criminals will decide the fate of a government which is said to be democratic “for the people and by the people”. I know this not for the first in the Indian history that any government is facing issues and also not very new or something special or unknown fact being shared…but still as a responsible citizen of this country I feel very sad.. very very very sad that what kind of examples are we going to set ??? I have always seen in several bollywood movies that the villain in the movie is a MLA (member of legislative assembly) or MP who is very corrupt and has a strong criminal background. He commits many crimes but breathes the freedom. And then there will a “hero”, who is a true Indian, whose veins flows country love instead of blood. He will fight against the villain (MLA/MP) and get back every thing to back normal and there will be law and order maintained everywhere!!! But I know life not cinema..nor these six people are villain of and movie … they are hard core criminal……in whose hand the future of the ruling party…….. lies. They will bargain their imprisonment for their freedom…and I am not sure but may be they succeed and set examples for their follower, how to use their power of crime!!! We all are very well aware that rate of crime and corruption in India is quite high but still, I feel we all Indians have some hope in our hearts that …..these conditions will improve someday. But these incidents make me think again to hope !!!!!!!
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" REGENERATING HOPE"
hii prerna, its really good that youngsters think about the country and to be specific about the cheerleaders of our democracy that is our politicos.
well to begin with i would like to say that "rethinking hope" is some how a pessimistic headline for a young chap and if i am not wrong your entire blog reflects a sense of despair and anxiety regarding the political scenario of India.
I am in lieu with you about the fact that the politics is getting dirtier and the recent transparency international survey testifies it.
We Indians are in a rank of 85 (12 down by last year) in the rank of corrupt countries and countries like Bhutan ( ranked 45) have done much better than us.
You would be amazed to read that about 9000 million rupees we people have given bribe in the last one year!!!! Oh my god, but what swiss bank officials say is some how bit more dashing that about 1500 billion dollars have been put by Indian people in the account itself mainly bureaucrats , politicians and the industrialists and to our surprise "This amount is about 13 times larger than the country’s foreign debt"!!!!! Alas!
But the corruption is one of many symptoms that our politicos show . say the second terrorism, how they are playing vote bank politics on our dead bodies!!!!!
but now your question that whether we should think about a very sweet word Hope then I must say yes my dear we must. We have not got the freedom to live in a state of despair or frustration about our selves. There is always a hope.One small candle kills darkness and our hope and proper selection of representatives will do the remedy.
You will be surprised to see the vote transition in last polls. All metros comprises 29 percent voting only and to be particular aamchi mumbai only 20 percent.
Apart from voting lets not loose faith on the bureaucrats who are coming. Alls are not equal.
with this note I hope I would have certainly calm your anxiety to some extent. Positive is life. So cheer up and hope for the best.
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