Everyone is saying and promoting the passing of a mere resolution in Parliament as a victory for Anna Hazare and his team. However, this is not the case.
To put it simply it means that the government can and will go back on its word. It has not given any commitment to fulfil whatever the resolution has promised. The government has not given up and is in no mood to give up.
In fact, the agitation has done something which the Indians will have to dread and bear for a long time to come. It has unwittingly and unknowingly united the political and ruling classes against the masses of the country. There is no way that they will give up their establishment so easily. We will need to pay for this.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Anna is not India
Not everyone is supporting Anna Hazare. We may be frustrated with everyday corruption and bribe demanding by the establishment but still I can not and will not support the way this so called revolution is unravelling.
The government is an ass for helping him get so much credibility. The way Anna is now trying to dictate terms and conditions to the government is pathetic and pitiful both for the Congress-led government and the nation as a whole.
The agitators cannot tell me that unless I support their ongoing protests I am not a true Indian. I do not need their or anyone else's certificate.
This is essentially an caste Hindu, middle class and urban population agitation that has an uncanny resemblance to the Mandal agitation. Those participating in such agitations should remember just one thing that they are destroying the credibility of not only a few democratic institutions but also the Indian democracy.
The government is an ass for helping him get so much credibility. The way Anna is now trying to dictate terms and conditions to the government is pathetic and pitiful both for the Congress-led government and the nation as a whole.
The agitators cannot tell me that unless I support their ongoing protests I am not a true Indian. I do not need their or anyone else's certificate.
This is essentially an caste Hindu, middle class and urban population agitation that has an uncanny resemblance to the Mandal agitation. Those participating in such agitations should remember just one thing that they are destroying the credibility of not only a few democratic institutions but also the Indian democracy.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Sibal shows power
Despite calls by Kapil Sibal and his colleagues in the cabinet that Anna's supporters should hold the protests peacefully, the HRD Minister's supporters themselves resorted to violence.
The students, belonging to Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia University, were beaten up by goons from Chandni Chown as they raised slogans against the government and Kapil Sibal.
Several of them, from the All India Student's Association, also raised black flags and posters just as Sibal got up to speak. Organisers of the event were taken by surprise as the protesters, numbering about a dozen odd were seated in the middle of the Mavalankar auditorium,
got up on their seats and started raising slogans calling for introduction of a Jan Lokpal Bill.
The sloganeering led to inflamed tempres as supporters of the HRD Minister also countered the protesters by shouting slogans praising the government and Sibal.
The protest by AISA students' led to a fight between Sibal supporters and students. With numbers in their favour, Sibal supporters were able to expel from the seminar venue after a brief scuffle. It was only after the expulsion of this group that Sibal was able to speak.
Though the seminar addressed by him today was marred by violence, the Minister called on the students to protest peacefully. Another farce exposed.
The students, belonging to Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia University, were beaten up by goons from Chandni Chown as they raised slogans against the government and Kapil Sibal.
Several of them, from the All India Student's Association, also raised black flags and posters just as Sibal got up to speak. Organisers of the event were taken by surprise as the protesters, numbering about a dozen odd were seated in the middle of the Mavalankar auditorium,
got up on their seats and started raising slogans calling for introduction of a Jan Lokpal Bill.
The sloganeering led to inflamed tempres as supporters of the HRD Minister also countered the protesters by shouting slogans praising the government and Sibal.
The protest by AISA students' led to a fight between Sibal supporters and students. With numbers in their favour, Sibal supporters were able to expel from the seminar venue after a brief scuffle. It was only after the expulsion of this group that Sibal was able to speak.
Though the seminar addressed by him today was marred by violence, the Minister called on the students to protest peacefully. Another farce exposed.
Anna in Tihar
Who the hell is devising such crappy political strategies for the Congress. Fisrt you put Anna Hazare in jail and then release him the very same day.
What is the Congress doing. Is the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi being missed? Has the party lost its ruling ways? It seems that the party is either confused or hell bent on burning its own house down. First they provide credibility to people like Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev by indulging them and later they are thrown out like a chusa hua aam ki guthli.
It now seems that the government has caved into the pressure tactics being applied by the Team Anna and will give more than what they deserve.
The fiascos of the past few days notwithstanding, the country can still be brought onto the right path. The need here is to evolve a right policy to deal with such situations.
What is the Congress doing. Is the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi being missed? Has the party lost its ruling ways? It seems that the party is either confused or hell bent on burning its own house down. First they provide credibility to people like Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev by indulging them and later they are thrown out like a chusa hua aam ki guthli.
It now seems that the government has caved into the pressure tactics being applied by the Team Anna and will give more than what they deserve.
The fiascos of the past few days notwithstanding, the country can still be brought onto the right path. The need here is to evolve a right policy to deal with such situations.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Anna Vs Government
The problem with the UPA government is that first it promotes people like Anna Hazare and Ramdev by sending its senior ministers to pay obeisance to them and later tries to run these very people.
Why does the government offer them a dose of credibility by including them in committees and indulging them in long talks with its ministers. Then later these people are termed as anti democratic. What is this farce.
If the government feels that these people are anti democratic they should be crushed and should not have indulged them. But the matter now seems to be out of hand for the government as it tries to hold on to power and put up a brave face to what seems to be a showdown. The message is clear though that Anna's movement too will be crushed like Ramdev's.
Why does the government offer them a dose of credibility by including them in committees and indulging them in long talks with its ministers. Then later these people are termed as anti democratic. What is this farce.
If the government feels that these people are anti democratic they should be crushed and should not have indulged them. But the matter now seems to be out of hand for the government as it tries to hold on to power and put up a brave face to what seems to be a showdown. The message is clear though that Anna's movement too will be crushed like Ramdev's.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Sonia's foren treated illness
Indian doctors and hospitals are only good enough for desis. Foren items can not be taken in there for treatment. This seems to be true as far as the case of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi goes.
Double standards of the party stand exposed as Sonia Gandhi Maino goes under the surgeon's knife in a US hospital. Are the hospitals in India not good enough to treat her.
Why are such doctors and hospitals being forced on the people of this country if they are not good for the Congress' first lady. We are sub standard human beings or is she better than us all. This country cannot be treated this way. Time that someone stood up and asked these uncomfortable questions.
Double standards of the party stand exposed as Sonia Gandhi Maino goes under the surgeon's knife in a US hospital. Are the hospitals in India not good enough to treat her.
Why are such doctors and hospitals being forced on the people of this country if they are not good for the Congress' first lady. We are sub standard human beings or is she better than us all. This country cannot be treated this way. Time that someone stood up and asked these uncomfortable questions.
Monday, August 1, 2011
M F Hussain gets felicitated
The painter who left this country for a foreign shore is being felicitated by the government after his death. M F Hussain, who disowned India was today given respect by none other than Parliament of our country. Why?
Why are we still trying to claim him as one of our own when he so disrespectfully left for foreign shores? The dead artist should not and does not deserve any respect from our country. He had left the country of his own will. And then disowned it by accepting the citizenship of some other country.
The political class is full of shit and needs to understand that we are well off without people who will rather not call themselves Indian though they were given so much adulation during their lifetime. There are fanatics in each and every country. Even Norway, like we saw recently. But is doesn't require us to disown our country. In fact, it requires us to take on such fanatics and make your point of view known.
Why are we still trying to claim him as one of our own when he so disrespectfully left for foreign shores? The dead artist should not and does not deserve any respect from our country. He had left the country of his own will. And then disowned it by accepting the citizenship of some other country.
The political class is full of shit and needs to understand that we are well off without people who will rather not call themselves Indian though they were given so much adulation during their lifetime. There are fanatics in each and every country. Even Norway, like we saw recently. But is doesn't require us to disown our country. In fact, it requires us to take on such fanatics and make your point of view known.
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