The story of Modern David and Goliath.
We live in a country where great souls were born.
To name a few: Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, and Sir Ramanujam.
These were the people who excelled in their work and did India proud.
Mahatma Gandhi gave us the Freedom from the British Empire, but he is not alive to see the state of affairs in this country now.
It is a sad state of affairs that in this country we live amongst corrupt politicians, Police Officers, Government Officials and of course the corporate world.
The scams of recent times like Common Wealth Games, and the 2G scam are the ones which have brought disrepute to our country.
The 2G scam is mind boggling and one cannot understand the serious impact on our country’s wealth.
Why has this happened?
The people of this country are poor and do not understand the huge loss to the exchequer because of these scams.
The corruption is so rampant that all of us would have faced this in our day to day life and we just cannot circumvent this hazard.
We have learnt to live and accept this as a way of life.
What a shame that we live with this malady and do nothing about it.
Then comes this small statured man Anna Hazare who leads a campaign against corruption and goes on fast.
Today is the 12Th day and the people of this country are behind him.
This gives strength to his movement and for the cause.
Isn’t it strange that the Government is not seeing the writing on the wall and relenting, its time they accept the demands (sorry it cannot be called a demand but it’s a need of the people) and try to resolve the issue?
It’s strange that the Government is arguing about Parliamentary systems and following the constitution and saying that Anna cannot blackmail them to accept his demands.
If they were following the constitution to the core then why was there no transparency in running a Government as envisaged in our constitution?
We can understand their predicament, how would our politicians accept this Lok Pal Bill when they would be subjected to the scrutiny of the Lok Pal in future about any misdeeds committed by them.
It’s sad that even after 64 years of Independence that we do not have a corporate governance act in Government and they have dilly dallied for over 42 years on this bill as reported in the newspapers.
What Anna could do with his hunger strike, nobody could imagine, it’s a snowballing effect and people are frustrated and fed up with the existing rotten political system.
They say that Politics is a place where there would be strange bedfellows.
There is a complete breakdown of governance and every politician in this country has ensured that their kith and kin need not work for their lifetimes for the the next few generations and have also ensured that their sons daughters get a place in the political system and make their lives even better.
Anna is a savior and has taken cudgels against the government and he is fighting valiantly and I am sure that he would get more support from the general public.
Anna Keep fighting, we are with you.
Many thanks to Anna for enlightening us and bring some semblance of dignity and uprightness in our political system.
01.09.11
PS: Anna has ended his fast and the Government has conceded to take up the three vital issues raised by him.Thank God wisdom prevailed on our authorities and people's will prevailed.
It's a true victory of democracy.
It's been an unique non violent movement since Independence and it was well managede by the people of the country.
India has shown the world once again after Gandhi that we are peace loving and believe in non violent satyagraha.
It's a good lesson to our youngsters who constitute a vast majority of our population today.
