Being Cynical™: December 2011

Open Letter To Congress Party

Published on: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 // Congress, Corruption, Jokers, Losers, Open Letter

Dear Congress Party,

Actually hell with that….

Congress Party,

Even though the letter could have been written to individual party members, separately highlighting their respective nefarious persona; I thought to club it into one as more or less you all are same in everything. From Bootlicking to Looting; From Goons to pseudo Gandhigiri; You all are modeled in one mold. So do bear with me for writing this one big letter; more so when you guys are bearing quite willingly with someone called Rahul Gandhi.

Without any prejudice, let me say this – you guys have ruined this country and made a big mess of it through your collective antagonism. You guys also know it but all hell seems to break loose the moment any one of us even remotely tries to utter this bitter truth. Every time someone questions your ethics and your dedication towards the nation and its people, you spread your hood like an irate King Cobra and start spewing venom. Every time one asks for justifications on your latest action, you ask them to keep their mouth shut as you are been elected by the people of India hence possess a popular mandate.

Just because we have a large voting section of the country who are illiterate and so poor that they are forced to survive on their own shit and can be easily bought or sold in exchange of a Desi Daru pouch; your goons winning parliamentary seats by cunning those poor people doesn’t make you a popular choice. So please don’t ever claim yourself being the choice of the people if you take the number of slippers hurled at your party men as any kind of hint.

Racking up some funny number to claim that simple majority in the house so that you can hang on to power is a game which political parties are best playing at. But the same numbers seem like giving Suresh Kalmadi a Rs 500/- note as bribe, when it comes to some rational logic. A mere 20% vote share of yours’ doesn’t in anyway justify your claim of you being the majority choice of the nation. 20% share of the votes and still you guys claim yourself being populous? You guys must be dumb to claim so. Or is it the average literacy level of the party is taking better of logical reasoning? Do some work on your mathematics in a hurry if you guys don’t want to go back to primary schools all over again. On a second thought, the suggestion doesn’t seem like a bad one when more than half of your party men haven’t seen how a school looks like. Coming back to my point; Just that you managed to find other crooks like DMK and NCP with similar mindset and joined hands to voyage through your national loot mission, doesn’t make you the choice and voice of the nation. Hence I would urge with folded hands that you guys stop vouching for such obnoxious claims at once or we for sure are done away with hurling slippers alone and would certainly love some action involving our palms and your cheeks henceforth. Ask your ally party man Sarad Pawar how exactly it feels.

I also hear you red-eye one and all at the drop of a hat and accuse them of subverting democracy? Really? That is like Tiger Woods giving lecture on ‘How to be loyal to your wife’. Let me tell you this - Your party and respect for democracy is a bigger oxymoron than Mayawati and Development. Before we go further we must take a pause at this interesting juncture and have a little chat. Could the worshipers of democracy and those saints disguised as politicians of your party can raise their hands if you believe your party is democratic to begin with. When you guys haven’t had any kind of election to elect your own party head in last decade or so, it makes me more nervous than Baba Ramdev after getting Lathi Charged at Ramlila ground to see you guys raising questions on someone else’s democratic values. Sonia Gandhi is occupying the chairmanship without any internal election with all likelihood the trend would be followed in future as it is more than evident that it is Rahul Gandhi who would take over later. So my second request with folded hands – Please don’t become a national embarrassment by raising such self-humiliating questions. Next time you start questioning the stinking ass of someone else, I would request you to look within at your own shit smeared posteriors.

There is one cunning fox amongst you named Kapil Sibal, who stands out from the rest by his sheer nonsense orating skills. When a whole bunch of gray heads went beyond a lakh crore to formulate on how much the loyal pawn of Karunanidhi has managed to syphon in 2G auction; this mathematics genius, armed with his own set of algorithms came to his own conclusion of the loss being zero and went ahead announcing it in the parliament. You guys must believe me – It is funnier than even watching a Ramgopal Verma directed horror movie. If that was not enough he recently announced reincarnating himself to some kind of sniffer dog so that he can sniff out all those unwanted and anti-religious materials getting into cyber world. If you manage to read this someday Kapil, then don’t even wait for a second but either shoot yourself or jump off a cliff immediately. And please don’t give that crap security concern as the cause of such tantrums when the real agenda behind such foolishness from you is something else. If we as a nation can’t even survive our own criticisms then there is something seriously wrong and the first step towards fixing it would be to have people like you being thrown back to the places you belong. Trust me – people in and around Chandni Chowk become extremely irritated by the sheer mention of your name and it is time you mend yourself before you get bashed up black and blue by your own people.

Trust me guys, at times I even get envious looking at you and the gems that are with your possession with the Kohinoor of them being Digvijay Sing. I just can’t explain how the very mention of his name makes me remind the sorry face of Saurav Ganguly in that ‘Apne Apke Dada Ko Bhule To Nehin’ advertisement. The world knows how to deal with rubbish people; that is not to give them an ounce of importance and hence I am doing pretty much the same by not writing further on him.

Jokers are never taken seriously. That said, I have my third request with folded hands; Please stop him from uttering on anything and everything and showing his extreme intellectual bankruptcy every time. Else don’t be surprised if someone from the neighborhood calls up the municipality dog catching unit and reports about a consistently barking mad dog which would lead to Digvijay Sing being parceled in a caged dog catching van and transported to canine shelter for rehabilitation.

I am not going to write anything on Lokpal bill either. I know your real intentions and I am sure you guys won’t allow a strong biting mechanism passing through. Otherwise it would create a serious human resource issue at the party level as half of your men would be packed behind bars within hours of this bill getting implemented. This half might also include stalwarts like Chidambaram.

Hope some sense would prevail and I expect at least one joker (literate) of your grand old party would take some time out and reply me back with his reactions. I can’t share my address details as I am very much aware of you guys have the largest and most wide spread goons collection in the world.

Warm Regards

Someone being looted by your party for last 65 years!!

P.S - By the way, can someone take the pain and answer back the exact qualification of Rahul Gandhi and why his name is still Rahul Vinci on his passport?

What The Heck !!

Published on: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 // Corruption, India, Nepotism, Politicians, Politics

This is a piece of news we shouldn’t give a miss. According to Times Of India, an independent international watchdog organization named Global Financial Integrity (GFI) in their reports have jolted few numbers, which might very well blast the living day lights out of half of our population.

According to them, in last decade alone close to $128 billion dollars was syphoned from India and were transferred to black accounts of many present in different tax heavens. This amount roughly converts to Five and Half Lakh crore in Indian currency. This roughly calculates out to be around four thousand odd crorers every month. Heck!! That’s a hell lot of money. I mean with that amount we can buy Nigeria, Kenya, Tahiti, Somalia and few more African nations, install a Mayawati statue in each major city of India, including one in moon, convince Dawood Ebrahim to shoot Mamta Banarjee at sight, have multiple plastic surgery on Jayanthi Natrajan’s nose to get it to some shape and yet be left with enough change to pocket Togo and buy an IPL team. That is one heck of an amount which I fear counting the number of zeros it might contain.

Jokes apart, whose money is this? Is it the money of common people like you and me? Or is it the money of Government which the defaulters never paid in tax? Who are the skunks who could manage to syphon such large amount and how? How come our competent authorities couldn’t stop the loot to happen after having so many checks and balances in our operation frameworks? Or is it yet another case of nepotism getting better of moral and ethical values and the money is syphoned in connivance of one and all with each party having a decent share in the loot?

Look at the sorry state of affairs in our country. There are more than 600 million people in this country whose average daily income is not more than Rs 20/- per day. Among all the developing nations, we have a pathetic track record in terms of providing education to our kids. Basic healthcare is in shambles. Our roads and highways are as bad as it can get. Our scientific innovation efforts are getting dented due to the lack of fund. And here we are managing to syphon five lakh crores in a decade.

The money which belongs to the common people like you and me; The money which belongs to our Government is being promptly looted by the thugs of the society and tucked elsewhere. There are politicians who loot the tax payer’s money in the name of various welfare schemes and pile it on foreign banks. There are corporate houses who in connivance with the politicians and bureaucrats hide their taxes and stock them elsewhere. There are bureaucrats who take advantage of the lose and weak bureaucratic framework to remain engage in corruption activities throughout their tenure and keep on looting till the last day of their retirement. There are these film and media houses who get funded in crores through the Hawala market and in nepotism with the politicians subgrade their income to a considerable lower proportion to avoid paying high tax. We are full with corrupts; if anything the staggering $128 billion number proved. No wonder from making baby foods to our moon mission – We are corrupt in everything.

Time and again we come up with money minting avenues like NREGA and loan waiver for farmers. With a reserve estimate, nothing less than one lakh thirty thousand cores were invested in both these schemes collectively. The money that had been spent in these schemes and schemes alike are just hogwash. In the name of social welfare and poverty upliftment, our politicians get engaged in the looting work to drain the nation from its resources, avenues and revenue. In the name of building a sporting culture and national pride people looted thousands of crores of poor tax payer’s money. The instances of loot in this great country is millions in literal sense.

Let’s see how reactive we are when such unholy loot gets unearthed. There are people like Hasan Ali who on an individual account are defaulter of at least fifty thousand crores in tax to the Government and yet not been handed with exemplary punishment. We had people thrown behind bars for corruption in 2G, CWG and Adarsh but only to find each of the thugs getting bail one after another. We had got corruption cases pitted against our politicians, including a former Prime-Minister and the cases run into donkey’s years with each of the scoundrels getting clean chit at the end of the day. We had big fishes like Harsad Mehta and Ketan Parekh apprehended while playing with our economy and yet have to release them with all dignity later, due to the lack of evidence (or bribed to cover the evidence). We have white collar thieves like Ramalingam Raju, who syphon out a good seven thousand crores and yet to be acted option. If anything few of these inaction list of our’s suggest, then it proves we don’t want to act against the corrupts and thugs at all.

Not only we hate to act against the buffoons who have looted us, but also don’t want someone else to take up the task. Look at what our Government done or trying to do against an honest and much required agitation of Anna Hazare. As the looters were questioned about their loot; the looters went up in arm to brand and vandalize Anna’s movement as an act of anti-nationalism, architectured and propagated by anti-nationals like Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi. In the name of parliament supremacy, they are busy engaged in the acts of hypocrisy and delaying tactics. They tell lie and cheat the entire nation with false promises, all the while trying their best to brush the truth under the carpet. They bring unnecessary hindrances in the discussion to formulate a strong set of rule to take looters like them to task. Sometime they come up with some theatrical Game Changer Idea while at some other time they bring the out of context minority quota into the debate. The idea was just to shift the goal post and delay the process as far as possible.

They don’t want us to ask uncomfortable questions on their loot. They don’t like we asking why they are looting the populace with both hands as if it is their birth right. They hate us if we stand up and ask them to own up their created mess and be accountable to the nation. The looters don’t like honest people like you and me furnishing honest questions and sought honest answers. If we do, then we are there to be branded as anti-national and unpatriotic.

The Minority Report - Lalu's Version

Published on: Friday, December 23, 2011 // Appeasement, Corruption, Lalu Yadav, Vote Bank

Not that I wasn’t aware of this, but yesterday it was confirmed beyond any doubt that Lalu Prasad Yadav is a big embarrassment to Indian democracy. The little hope that I had of him turning useful for the nation at least once in his life span crashed badly on account of his unnecessary blabber and ranting on the floor of the house on an entire non-issue.

Non-issue, because the job at hand was to table the much awaited Lokpal bill. A matter that the entire nation wants to be debated, argued with genuine reasons and vigor was marred with some non-required gimmickry by Lalu in his trademark style. This is not only an insult to the civil society but also to the nation itself. Rather than realizing the gravitas of the situation, Lalu made a mockery of the whole process by his extraneous outburst on anyone and everyone remotely related to Jan Lokpal.

Though such acts of vandalism is always expected from a seasoned clown like Lalu and we all should ignore it outright; the concerns he raised (may be for personal gain) can’t be ignored with that ease. Even though the political career of Lalu is diminishing faster than that of Harbhajan Sing’s cricketing career, yet the reasoning and demands he furnished and subsequently the agility of the Government in accepting the demands within no time, tells something for which we all must be concerned.

I just want to ask this to all the Lalus and clowns alike of the world – when we for once keep the votebank politics out of serious issues dealing with National Interest and security? This looks grossly filthy and intolerable when people like Lalu and Gurudas Dasgupta having fractured agenda try to hijack a serious discussion to a nonsensical proportion by popping up complete non-issues. More intolerable it becomes when we see the farce unfolding very unholy way throughout the day and yet can’t do anything to stop the callousness.

There were many flaws and disjoints to the arguments of Lalu Yadav. To begin with, when it is not even yet decided in which form the bill would be passed, jumping the gun and arguing against the proposed guideline of forming the panel of ombudsmen for the Lokpal is not only premature but also childish. The manner in which the issue of missing minority quota in the panel was dragged out of context and argued upon, made many wonder if Lalu’s reaction to the issue was spontaneous or was it a planned move in connivance with the ruling party? A close look at the nature of oration and an unnecessary dig at the BJP and RSS without any considerable reasons or proof show the whole drama was more stage-managed than spontaneous.

The initial proposal had the mention of minority quota in the panel of ombudsmen of Lokpal which surprisingly was omitted when the bill was tabled in the parliament.

This seems to have angered an opportunist individual like Lalu, who after seeing the debacle of his party in Bihar has this last resort left to hook on to the minority vote chunk so that his political career could still remain afloat. While the reason behind such omission is still not clear, Lalu had his conspiracy theory ready as usual. As per him, it is the BJP and RSS who put tremendous pressure on the Government to do the chopping work. This is obnoxious and brainless accusation to say the least. You need to be a complete insane to believe BJP-RSS combine have enough clout to put pressure on the Government.

When there isn’t much coherence between the ruling party and BJP, how effective the demand to chop the minorities from the panel, made to a party who are known conceiver of appeasement and votebank politics and thrive on minority votes, is anybody’s guess. RSS? Really? At this juncture Lalu needs to elaborate, how in earth RSS came to the picture of a democratic framework and legislation when the Sangh doesn’t have a single representative in the house nor they are a political party. Even though there is a close association of RSS with BJP, it still looks questionable if RSS is in a position to force the Government to let go their favorite route and abide by their idea. Lalu needs to do some serious explanation as it is about time that nonsense on the floor of the house be dealt with iron fist so that nefarious elements like Lalu and many other are refrained from opening their mouth and uttering all the nonsense one could.

More surprises followed after this outburst of Lalu. Best of them is the agility of the Government in accepting the demands of Lalu within hours. Now this raises a concern as far as our constitution is concerned. Does our constitution anywhere allow quota on the basis of religion? Perhaps not. Then the ground on which Congress agreed to have that for Lokpal seems questionable. No wonder BJP is up-in-arms for such blatant violation of the constitution. The argument of the Congress party that minority doesn’t necessarily means religion but a group of people and hence can be accommodated, is nothing but a futile attempt at some dirty hogwash.

The entire script seems straight out of a Bollywood flick. First, adding minority quota in Lokpal while drafting; then removing it while tabling. The uproar of the parliament architected by the perpetual clown Lalu and subsequently the quota being reinstalled. Isn’t there something fishy in the whole drama? Doesn’t it look like as if it was well scripted behind closed doors and enacted on the floor so that the Government can further delay in signing their own death warrant?

Amidst all this confusion, one thing is certain – ‘Now the MPs can earn money from the Government by their illogical and out of tune oration ’. How? Just ask Lalu and Gurudas Dasgupta, as they accomplished a paid oration job for the Government yesterday only.

Manu, Let’s Debate Your Rubbish Bill

Published on: Thursday, December 22, 2011 // Anna Hazare, Congress, Corruption, Dirty Tricks, India, Politicians, Public Interest

Looking at the chaos and TuTu-MainMain around Lokpal bill, one wonders if it is time that we have a pan India open debate to set things straight once-and-for-all.

The much awaited bill on which various governments sat on without any urgency and got rejected every time it is tabled in parliament in last forty years is going to be tabled for the 16^th time today. It never happened suo-moto, but required a pan India agitation which saw a 79 year old doing two rounds of hunger strike. When finally it did manage to get a shape to be tabled again, we need to ponder – ‘IN WHICH FORM?’

We all wanted a strong Lokpal bill; Strong enough to put in more stringent checks and balances to control the corruption in every level. Studying the media reports on the proposed bill of the Government, one wonders, if we really got what we wanted. Did our aspiration of having a serious institution, free from the clutches of the ruling Government being installed to safeguard the national interest and control the rampant corruption that the country is going through, is been fulfilled or not.

The point of serious difference between team Anna and the Government representatives has got three major issues. The inclusion of PM under the Lokpal. CBI as an independent investigative agency under Lokpal. And finally, the formation of effective citizen chatters. Let’s ponder if the proposed bill of the Government is addressing any of the three concerns with any seriousness or not.

Inclusion of PM under Lokpal :

The initial demand was to have PM under the purview of the Lokpal at all time. Like me, many see no harm in any such demand. When the PM is already under the supervision of the laws of the land and even under CBI, then what is the harm in having him under Lokpal? But for some strange reasons best known to the gray heads of the standing committee, they want to defer on this popular sentiment as it is evident from the below changes they prescribed from the original demand.

PM is under the Lokpal but with conditions.
PM should not be questioned on issues of National Security and Nation Interest, Foreign Relations, Atomic Energy
The complains against the PM should not be made public
The prosecution of the PM should be on camera

The first point is humorous to say the least. For the life of me I fail to understand why can’t the PM being a citizen of the nation be under the laws of the land without any condition, as an average citizen? Why the PM have to have privileges even when it comes to abide by the laws of the land? This seems grossly illogical to me as our constitution mandates to treat each one of us with same yardstick in the eyes of the law. If I as an individual is under the Lokpal without any condition then why can’t the PM be; More so when he/she is an elected representative?

PM not to be questioned on issues of National Security seems genuine, as long as it is clearly defined which precise matters one should consider as matters of National Security. Is there any such list available? The fear of our cunning politicians misusing this clause to safeguard themselves by painting every damn issue under the sun being of National Security nature can’t be ruled out. Given a chance there would be guys who would readily try to project even allocation of spectrum as a matter of National Security and hence the PM can’t be questioned why he let Raja keep on looting. This precise clause is as same as Article-72 of our constitution dealing with Mercy petitions. We know how the political parties have manipulated it to carry on with their appeasement activity.

For the third point, I just want to ask – Hell, why not? Why shouldn’t the complains be made public? Doesn’t the nation have the rights to know on what charges their own elected Prime-Minister is been investigated? Where is the issue of conflict of interest that the Government is trying to furnish as an excuse for their decision? Rather, as long as the investigation remains transparent, it will in fact minimize the so called conflict of interest and would stop individuals with nefarious interest from taking advantage of the situation.

CBI under Lokpal:

CBI seems to be like a Girlfriend for the ruling party, whom they neither can keep nor can revel to their wives. It is no secret that the premier investigative agency is long been used by the ruling party to carry out the political vendetta against their rivals. Many a times CBI is asked to go slow on investigations when it deals with ruling party’s ministers. The classic example is that of the 2G case where CBI was all but busy covering up the loot than unearthing it, till a point when the Apex court jumped into the foray and order them to pull up their socks. When it was most needed to free the CBI from the Government clutches, the Government came up with some nasty surprises, completely in contrast to what been demanded in Lokpal

CBI be still under the Government with PM being the appointee of the director
CBI would have a separate investigating wing which would be under Lokpal
The prosecuting wing of CBI would be under the Government as usual

I am not sure if one should laugh or cry on these points. At the outset one would for sure pity on the brains who thought of such ornamental travesty of commonsense. When the concern was the misuse of the CBI for political gain we see nothing has been done to address that concern. It is still under the Home-ministry with its director reporting to the Home-minister. Now one can guess how effective and fair the agency would be with its investigation while dealing with corrupt ministers of the ruling government. More than the logic, I am yet to get to the crux of such death-may-do-us-apart love of the Government for CBI.

For the second point, one can safely laugh out loud and yet be unquestioned on the reasons. How in earth one can conceive the idea of having a corruption crusade independent institution without having its own prosecution wing is beyond my imagination. What the Government wants the Lokpal to do? Break their backs in investigating and unearthing the loot and the looters and then give it to CBI prosecution wing to take it from there and screw up all the hard work at the end of the day? Does the Government want the Lokpal to work like mules to bring the rascals to the light of the day; only for the prosecution to start covering up the mess later? Even the word disgusting is an understatement.

On Citizen Charter:

No issues with that if the proposed bill never talks anything about it when we have a separate bill already tabled to address this issue. But on the second thought, just wondering; why the hell so many bills are floated when our government in an average takes a good part of four decades to pass one?

So in nutshell, the dirty tricks department seems to have their way yet again in safeguarding themselves and some maligned interest of few. The strong Lokpal that would have made sure thugs are apprehended with their pants down is intentionally made toothless. And for once if Sonia Gandhi is half serious on her utterances about fighting for a strong Lokpal as it is a path breaking bill, then why doesn’t she accepts Anna’s challenge of coming out to the open and debate over the rubbish bill her party men have proposed as an output of the so called useless standing committee meetings?

Mrs. Gandhi - Are you listening ?? !!

How Bad Is Too Bad?

Published on: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 // Corruption, India, Public Interest

When we Indians would understand that where exactly how much is too much? When we will realize that it is about time we shed off our easy going attitude and be proactive in demanding for our legitimate dues? Till when we will expect others to do the tough walk and we enjoying the benefits of someone else’s hard work? When we will get out of our slumber and realize, all that is been projected to us is not rosy in realty?

We have suffered a lot over the years, decades, centuries for this very easy going attitude. This attitude is the biggest reason why we could be ruled by handful of English for centuries and Mughals for thousand years before that. We never took our independence and sovereignty with any seriousness. We were greedy and selfish. We were lazy and volatile. We were traitors and touts. We were in fact everything that was bad and continue to be so. So no wonder, under the disguise of democracy again a handful of people are looting us for decades together and we are still lazy-ing around like pigs in the mud and continue to be looted.

We always thought there ought to be a savior who will come and save us from our plight. We always were too reluctant to oppose, voice our opinion and agitate for all the wrong meted to us. We heavily depend on figures like Sivaji, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Anna Hazare to come forward and uplift our pathetic state. But that always can’t be the case. There can’t be always someone who would take the fight head on while we cool our respective asses in our cozy drawing rooms enjoying a pathetic IPL encounter. At some point we all have to rise to the occasion and fight for our demands.

We take pride of us being the world’s largest democracy. But had anyone thought, how much of us really take the pain to stand in the queue to vote? A national figure of only 40% voters turning up says a lot about our indifference, even towards the government we chose. Is it the real democracy when only 40% of the entire lot chose their government? Can we say the ruling party really has the popular mandate? A mere 20% vote share makes you form the government at the center with help of regional parties. Can this be a real democratically chosen government when it is formed in connivance with regional parties to reach that magical simple majority mark in the house? Can the regional parties who would have won their seats based on regional agendas and differences contribute to the national agenda of the nation? Parties like DMK, TMC are examples of opportunistic politics where they become a part at the center only to fulfill their self-goal. They arm-twist, blackmail and loot to safeguard their own interest and yet the chief ruling party just can’t act against them in fear of losing power and conveniently brush the democratic disasters under the carpet in the name of coalition politics. Is this the real democracy where people’s wishes were pushed to the back row terming it as anti-national while giving importance to individual wishes?

How this happened? Who allowed this to continue happening? Of course there are those who are more responsible than others and they would be certainly held accountable. But again truth be told, if you are looking for the guilty, you need only look in to a mirror. This is again an outcome of our easy going and Chalta hai attitude.

Look at the rampant appeasement going around in exchange of National interest, pride and security. People have the audacity to attack our parliament and lucky enough to continue enjoying our warm hospitality. Afzal Guru was sentenced to death by our Apex court a good five years back but is yet to be executed. When asked about this generosity, we are bombarded with varied answers. While at one hand we are told it is the president who is sitting on the mercy petition of the joker as she has no time left after visiting Pune to meet her brother 12 times every year, at the other hand we are told of some funny and never heard first-come first-serve mechanism in dealing with mercy petitions, as if we are booking a hotel room.

Ajmal Qassab and his accompanying clowns killed hundreds of innocents in one go but we are still dragging our feet to give justice to all those who died that fateful night and their family members. This is scary when vote bank politics takes precedence over national interest and public sentiments. This is scary when we see a complete non-functional government at the center which time and again fails to act on the culprits because of some compulsive coalition politics or hidden minority appeasement for vote bank. Look within; we citizens are even responsible for such indifference and nonchalant attitude of our own elected government towards us.

We have got corruption in every sphere. We have corrupts in every street, city, village and government offices across the country. Have we done anything to get rid of this malaise? Perhaps not. We certainly can’t formulate the rules but we can for sure socially boycott the known corrupts in our immediate circle, our family tree, our neighborhood.

How many of us have done that? How many of us have bluntly told someone to get out of his house as that person is corrupt and socially not acceptable? We believe Anna will do that for us through Jan Lokpal. We believe Lokpal is nothing short of a magic wand which will eliminate corruption from our country by mere swing of it. Let me assure you, when corruption has gone down into our genes, even a thousand Lokpals can’t stop this spreading. As long as we citizens don’t humiliate the corrupts of our neighborhood in social circle we are not going to achieve what we expect to achieve from Lokpal. It may sound little illogical and out of tune but as they say ‘Tough situation requires tough measures’.

All these are early signs of us turning into a Banana republic. These are early signs of us becoming more like an anarchy wrapped under the sugar coat of democracy. These are alarms for all of us to wake from our deep slumber and smell the coffee. It depends if we will wake up and start acting or just roll over and press the snooze button. Unfortunately if it is the later then for sure we as a nation are moving towards a disaster.

Jan Lokpal – The Debate Seems Never Ending

Published on: Thursday, December 15, 2011 // Anna Hazare, Congress, Corruption, Politicians

Call it an irony or the faulty framework of our democracy. The whole fight against corruption and the formulation of a Lokpal bill boiled down to the mercy of the very crooks against whom such a bill is proposed. People against whom this movement was staged have now become the authorizer and approver of it. How fair and effective they would be to stamp their own death warrant is anybody’s guess.

So as expected, the all-party meet to discuss the Lokpal bill went of more on the expected lines than anything. If the media is to be believed then a lot of TuTu-MainMain happened, yielding almost nothing. No party seemed too sure on where to put their money and whom to support. No consensus reached on what to do barring the Prime-Minister who did a formality when he said we need a strong Lokpal.

Bravo!! As if without the utterances of the Prime-Minister the populace at large wouldn’t have realized how badly we need a strong Lokpal bill. In nutshell, the entire all-party meet was a complete failure and yet another wastage of public money.

This raises a very concerning question. Can we really allow people to be the judge of their own crimes and then expect a fair verdict? Our democratic framework mandates the involvement of both houses of the parliament for new legislation to pass. While the procedures holds fine for other such legislations, it looks a little illogical and out of tune when we try to follow the same process in the case of a strong legislation like the Jan Lokpal. We all know it is formulated looking at the enormous amount of corruption in the country; 90% of which have some direct or indirect involvement of a politician.

The clear lack of conviction and will to allow such bill to come into existence was evident among all the political parties at yesterday’s all-party meet. Everyone was busy blaming the other, conveniently brushing the Asli Mudda under the carpet. If this is what the outcome at an all-party meet then one doesn’t need the IQ of a Nobel laureate to guess what the fate of the proposed bill would be when it goes to parliament for approval. Rather being in praise for Anna Hazare who took the pain to bring the Lokpal into public ambit, majority of the political parties were seen bashing his method of revolt which they feel is nothing but blackmailing the present day government and taking nation to ransom. All this farce in the name of an all-party meet doesn’t give much confidence to the common populace that the bill they are eagerly waiting to see getting passed would ever be materialized.

Now where this leads us to? When the very framework dictates the involvement of both the houses in matter like passing new legislations, how in earth one can bypass this? Is there any clause available in our constitution which can be used to keep away the crooks to decide the fate of a bill which is designed against the very same crooks? How about a referendum? Can we for once let the people of India decide what they want in which form when it comes to some sensitive bill like the Jan-Lokpal? Many European nations exercise this clause in issues which largely affects the people of the country directly.

In India corruption is something which each and every citizen must have suffered and continues to suffer. From production of Baby food to our Moon mission, each of it is marred with high degree of corruption. The level to which this malaise has spread into, that it has already started to suffocate us in our day-to-day life. When the phenomenon is hitting the common-man so badly, shouldn’t the same common-man be allowed to decide the nature of cure he wants to see? Why a bunch of elected representatives must always decide what is best for the nation?

But in India, it is always easier said than done. The first thing that been told to the nation every time there is a demand for referendum is the non-availability of any such clause in our constitution. The politicians always carry the constitution baton whenever it suits their need. This is where I dearly love to ask the political mass, does the constitution allows the rampant corruption that most of their brethren seem to be engulfed in? If they are so duty-bound to follow the constitution till the last letter, it makes one wonder where the same vigor vaporizes while getting corrupt? There are so many things the constitution doesn’t agree to or elaborates on. Constitution doesn’t mention anything on the funny first-come first-serve mechanism while dealing with mercy petitions either. So why this love for constitution and its respect when things suites your interest? Why not for once go a little wayward and ask the citizens what they want and decide on it; more so when our political class has failed to take any decision in last four decades after seventeen rounds of discussion.

The points of dispute which includes having the PM under the Lokpal along with grade C & D employees and formulation of citizen charters and making CBI as an independent investigative organization didn’t get any kind of consensus in the all-party meet. The final decision on these points still remains as volatile and fragile as it used to be when Anna started his agitation a year back. While there are few parties who agree to accommodate first three points of the demand the last one doesn’t find many credential buyers. As a middle path a bifurcation of CBI is proposed instead, where the CBI will do only investigate the financial crimes as an independent body whereas for others it would pretty much remain as it is now. I don’t know if it is too dangerous for our political parties to let go CBI of their clutches or it is plain ego which is stopping the political parties to make CBI an independent institution?

Won’t it be further messy if CBI is broken down to such micro level of operational expanse? Won’t it be a farce when CBI would wait for the CVC’s nod to start working on any particular scam? This proposal not only looks rubbish on the face of it but also explains the IQ level of our representatives.

Smelling the mess no wonder Anna has already decided to start afresh with his hunger strike from 27^th if things don’t get through by then. Many may term such acts as an act of blackmailing, but truth be told, you require some strong arm tactics to set right the highway robbers. Hope things won’t deteriorate to such proportion that we have start all over again from 27^th and would feel ashamed in front of the world that not only our politicians are the most corrupt lot but also are cheats of highest degree.

Congress - A Party Of Swindlers And Thugs

Published on: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 // Congress, Corruption, Losers

I am now entirely convinced that Congress is a party of swindlers and thugs and would conveniently sell the nation and national interest for personal gain. And there are more than just good enough reasons for me to come to this conclusion. A quick glance at the history of Congress and their rubbish acts and actions which has time and again harmed the nation and the populace speaks volume of the grand old party which are and were always a colony of crooks and on any given day can ashamed even the highway robbers.

To start with, it was Jawaharlal Nehru who made a mess of this country for his personal greed and womanizing nature. If not for a certain Sardar Patel we would have been begging all over the world by now. While Gandhi was all but perusing Nehru to drop his wish of becoming the first prime-minister and let Zinha have that honor which in a way would have ensured a non-division of the country; Nehru being power hungry and perhaps entered the independence movement with an eye on this post bluntly refused to listen to the father of the nation and stuck to his self-greed. How correct was Mahatma Gandhi when out of frustration he said this at that time – ‘Day will come when people will spit on the very mention of Congress and would throw stones at you’.

While stalwarts like Sardar Patel were busy formulating policies and road map of a developing India, Nehru was busy sporting a red rose and day dreaming how to sleep around with all the beautiful women including Lady Mountbatten. This is the truth of the grand old party which has such a distinguished founder who was nothing but a nymphomaniac womanizer.

Nehru and Congress continued with their loot (does anyone remember the Jeep scam?) and inflecting damages to the country till a certain Lalbahadur Shastri came to the helm. Let me admit – Shastriji was so unlike of Congress as he was clean. But it seems the destiny of the nation was never ready for a clean person but crooks and only crooks. That’s why perhaps we had Indira Gandhi to take over the mental. The shocking death of Shastriji at Tashkent is still a surprise for many and foul plays so that the first family can hang onto the power again can’t be ruled out.

Indira’s rule was a black chapter which we would have been better off without. Indira was always at the wrong end of the national interest and thought, she being the law in herself. Both the party and the first family of the party kept on with their looting spree for a good decade or so till Jayaprakash Narayan raised his voice against such institutional loot. Rest as they say is history when the crooked lady installed emergency, in-order to take away the freedom of speech and gag the media not to write on her and her mis-governance. So shameful was the outcome that the Allhabad High-Court announced the election of Indira as null and void for the misappropriate use of means and we found our prime-minister behind bars.

Little did we write about Rajiv Gandhi is better as he is a Bharat Ratna for looting the nation in Bofors deal and making it a personal responsibility of killing innocent Sikhs post Indira’s assassination.

While one can write tons of paper on the indifferent behavior of the party at large and a notorious family enjoying a borrowed surname and barely able to produce a graduate till today in particular, their latest jingoism in handling Anna Hazare and his demands for a strong Lokpal and their effort to fool the nation yet again for their greed is just the icing on the cake which labels them as leeches far more heinous and dangerous than all the Aarab dictators put together.

When Anna was in the 10^th day of his hunger strike, last time around, the parliament finally agreed to debate on the legitimacy of his demands. Just when the debate was becoming a genuine one a certain gentleman, who would fail the eighth grade exam nine out of ten times, thought of opening his mouth to let the world know, who the biggest buffoon of the world is. Quite unnecessarily he shifted the goal post by his so called game changer plan (for which the rest of the clown lot of Congress were head over the heels with praise) and instead suggested to make Lokpal a constitutional body. Please someone educate this under educated brat that he should stick to his regular gimmickry of staying in a Dalit hut and getting arrested while pillion riding in a bike and refrain himself from commenting on grave issues where his half-baked brain would fail miserably to supply the adequate amount of intelligent quotient. After much deliberation, finally the crooked government relented and the Prime-minister himself wrote a letter where he urged Anna to end his hunger strike and assured him of having a general consensus of the house to agree to his three major demands. That to have the PM under Lokpal and so as grade 3 & 4 employees along with formulation of citizen chatters.

While it was none other than the PM himself who assured of the same in writing, the dirty tricks department of Congress was at its cunning best when it came to drafting, for the parliament to pass. The slaves did all this just to appease a college dropout who at best can stay overnight in a Dalit’s hut as a part of gimmickry and pretend to be intellectual and pious while hobnobbing with his drug mafia Colombian girlfriend. The hurriedly constituted standing committee allegedly removed all that the PM agreed in writing and drafted an exact opposite toothless bill which later on can be used, manipulated by their future crooks and of course the mentally retarded heir apparent.

When the members of BJP and few others showed their disapproval of any such decision their anger was treated as a voice of dissent. Now this surprises me to see how far the dirty tricks department can manipulate their actions just to safeguard a pathetic family. One can question – there were only 11 who agreed to the draft formulated by the dirty tricks department, while there were 17 who disagreed. So, since when that the voices of majority is treated as a voice of dissent while the voice of minority as the voice of the committee? Only because the 11 voices are from the dirty tricks department?

No wonder team Anna is bewildered looking at the latest developments. An entire nation was cheated when the crooks for their personal gain over ruled the promise made by the prime-minister of the nation. The standing committee conveniently overlooked the promises of the PM so that they can implement the maligned interest of Rahul Gandhi. The token fast of Anna on 11^th and the large number of crowd present their to show their solidarity explains how aggrieved the nation is to see themselves being left in the cold yet again by the crooked party and its dirty trick department. To debate all political parties were invited at the Ramlila Ground to voice their opinion on an open forum. Almost every party obliged the invitation except the swindlers party. As expected the retard Yuvraj of the nasty brigade didn’t appear on the false context that the issue is being discussed in parliament and hence they don’t prefer participating in a parallel debate outside. I wish one from the dirty tricks department should explain if such is the concern for the privilege of the parliament then what made our PM voice about the same topic in a public rally of youth congress few days back?

This suggests the party along with swindlers, crooks and thugs is also full with clowns and hypocrites. They ruled the nation for last fifty years and blame it on BJP’s six year stint for every wrong that is happening with the nation. From bad development of our rural areas to the 40% BPL constituents; from rampant corruption to the law and order mismanagement; they find BJP being the sole culprit as they governed only for six years out of the 65 years. Such shameless is the grand old party that they never are seen standing up and owning up the responsibility but always in the lookout for a scapegoat. And who dares question their loot and indifference automatically becomes an anti-national for them. The moment you question their mis-governance, free hand for one and all to loot, complete lack of transparency, dirty tricks department’s misadventure to malign the image of genuine individuals or even asking uncomfortable questions about Rahul Gandhi’s qualification or caliber and achievement; you are branded as unpatriotic and gag orders are issued against you without delay.

For them perhaps even this piece of article is an unpatriotic and anti-national gesture and I am all but on the mercy of jokers like Kapil Sibal and his stooges to announce if I should have the externment orders be issued against me to get the hell out of this country which seems to belong only to that one party of swindlers and thugs so that a family which lacks in everything and lives on a borrowed surname to thrive and prosper in the loot without being questioned. Because uncomfortable questions would compromise the future prospect of the first family and no wonder Kapil wants people like me and million others are gaged from opinionating and questioning the very ethics and morals of a party and family that seems to have been thrust upon us by a bunch scoundrels and rascals. Kapil, you can take me on as I am the last person who cares even rat’s posterior to clowns like you and others of your dirty trick department and you should realize that while truncheon could be used in lieu of conversation, words would always retain their power. Words offer means to meaning for those who are ready to listen to the enunciation of truth and the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country. Isn’t there?

Kapil – There Should Be A Limit To Absurdity

Published on: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 // Dirty Tricks

In last one week I have developed some strong feelings for us as a nation. That, we deserve to remain poor, illiterate, slaves and with all probability be under some kind of dictatorship than the current pseudo democracy.

First it was the strange decision of holding back the justified approach of 51% FDI in retail sector and as recently as yesterday when Kapil Sibal hurriedly called a press meet and announced the installation of a new ministry called the ‘MINISTRY OF SOCIAL WATCHDOGS’ with him being the perpetual head of it. Both these actions are for sure going to get into the history books as ‘ridiculous idiocy marvels’ with Kapil being conferred with the ‘Nishan-E-Taliban’ khitab by the Neanderthal species hebetating the Khyber and Postun regions of Pakistan.

It all started when Kapil Sibal looked more serious than Murulitharan while bowling when he told the gathered press people that henceforth there would be some kind of gag order on what one should or shouldn’t publish on cyber world as a freehand till today has created enough problems for one and all with denting and hurting many individuals and religions. To make sure that none henceforth is allowed to vent their anger and self-maligned goals on cyber world without going unpunished, he himself would readily act as the chief sniffer dog, he added.

Let me not waste any time in congratulating Kapil for this path breaking decision. That said; even though I am a strong believer that there should be some kind of self-regulation and self-moderation before one puts something on the cyber space, the introduction of a gag order seems more scary and damaging than the so called hate work of the cyber world. Isn’t this an effort to snatch away the most important fundamental rights of a democratic framework – that is ‘The Freedom Of Expression’? The Social Networking sites which came under the ire of Kapil are largely being used by the young mass of our population where they feel free to discuss, debate, elaborate, contempt, argue and even out rightly malign an individual or a religion in the process; which in a way gives perspective to one’s wisdom about the happenings around him or her. While this could at times be a little erratic and out of track and too personal for someone’s comfort; but seeing it as a threat to national fabrics and national security so much so that the government of India has to take the task of setting things right on priority is way more exaggerated and a direct attack on individual’s privacy. To say that the effort is to protect people of different religions from the so called hate mongrels, as the main reason for such absurd step is out rightly childish, gibberish and hypocritical to say the least.

Even though the argument could still be accepted on its face value at this juncture, it would be mighty nice of Kapil if he can let all of us know his views on M.F.Hussain painting nude portraits of Hindu Goddesses; if he feels he is the so called custodian of religious sentiments. When half of India was aggrieved by such nonsense art work of Hussain and demanded for some strict action, the same Congress government which now seems to be so serious about religious sentiments went ahead and conferred Hussain with some national award instead. So Kapil either you people were wrong when you never acted on Hussain under the false pretext of ‘Freedom Of Expression’ back then or yesterday when you strangely thought of gagging one and all from free expression as it is hurting religious sentiments. As it seems you have the cake and planning to eat it too, it is highly required to let all of us know which one of your actions is wrong – Hussain being left scot free or the plan to put people behind bars just because they thought of venting something that is genuine.

And for God’s sake stop blaming BJP of being hypocritical as they hound out Hussain out of the country without showing respect to his fundamental rights back then but cry foul if Congress plans to do something of similar nature. In the case of Hussain there was a genuine reason which was supported by Article 153 of our constitution to book him under the law; but for some strange reasons you and your party conveniently looked the other way and gave us that ‘Freedom Of Expression’ nonsense and now when it comes to protect the non-existing image of few of your party carders and more precisely the members of that one family you come up with yet another nonsense.

While you might hide under the false concern of national fabric and only project yourself as a messiah for the same, but truth has a strange phenomenon of coming out of its own. I know where you are coming from Kapil. I know how you want to stop people from writing in length about the amount of scam the current government has accomplished and yet how conveniently you guys have brushed the truth under the carpet. I know you want to stop people from voicing about your vote bank politics and how your latest jingoism is meant to woo a particular community which forms a large vote constituent of the coming UP election. I know you don’t want people to discuss your government’s failure in governance and how you guys have made every government machinery as your personal property. I know you don’t want people to write against that one family which barely has produced any graduate and yet capable enough to have rest of you as their slaves. You don’t want people to discuss on the capability and caliber of the heir apparent.

So why act funny Kapil when the real agenda behind such outrageous attempt at sabotaging one’s fundamental rights is completely different from what you wanted us to believe? We are a mature nation and we all are mature people and can very well understand the real motive behind each of your sabbatical attempt at fooling the masses under the guise of National harmony and National security. Thanks to the enormous number clowns those who have ruled us for last so many years since independence, we now can very well understand each of the dirty tricks from the banks of dirty trick department of Congress.

It Is After All A Matter Of Status Cou.

Published on: Friday, December 2, 2011 // Politicians

Isn’t it for last 9 days that we fail to see even an hour’s work being performed in our parliament? Isn’t it that the partisan politics and personal benefits have taken a new low and virtually stagnated the current parliament session to some unachievable paralysis? The session in which the government promised to accomplish much more than they possibly have done in their last half a dozen year of misrule is in shambles again. No work done and looking at the proceedings, things don’t seem to change in near future either. The session for which the entire nation waited with bated breath as it is supposed to be the session where the Jan Lokpal was planned to be legislated is being ruined by some unnecessary Halla Gulla of BJP and an equally unnecessary and ill-timed announcement of 51% FDI nonsense in retail sector by the Congress to begin with.

At this juncture, when it is alleged that the tax payers are losing a whopping 2 crore for every nonfunctional day at the parliament and issues like Jan Lokpal are waiting to be discussed; shouldn’t our politicians be putting their efforts to break the unnecessary logjam? But alas, that is what far from being happening. Rather being concerned about the nonfunctioning of the parliament, our able politicians are busy convincing through their privilege committee to amend laws in the Motor Vehicle Act to allow member of parliaments to sport red light atop their official vehicles.

Now before we get outraged by such nonchalant behavior of our politicians towards us and our interest, I prefer to take a pause and rethink over the option of mine; if I should swear at them or be rational for a change and accept the facts?

We all love status cou. Don’t we? The pan India phenomenon where almost all of us are seen busy showing one upmanship in our immediate circle all the bloody time, why blame the politicians if they follow the same suite where sporting a red light atop their vehicles is just one avenue to flaunt their status cou? We love to act, enact, flaunt our so called contacts to one and all and demand respect for having a distant relative who happens to be a biggie in political circle. Doesn’t matter if we have met the relative in question in person ever or the last time we met was when Dinosaurs used to roam around this planet; but we love to flaunt as if we don’t have our breakfast without seeing each other’s face.

How many times you have seen that there are poor souls like you and many others who are made to stand in a queue under scorching sun while there are privileged few who were allowed to jump the queue? If that is not good enough, the privileged ones are seen flaunting their achievement and try their best to let all who are still standing in the queue know who the boss is. Breaking the rule with help of cronies from the power circle is what we all of us Indians love. We conveniently get our train tickets confirmed by using politician quota while easily neglecting the genuinely deserving ticket holders, just because they don’t know anyone who can flash his/her status cou for them.

We love to be different and superior from the crowd, even if it means breaking few laws here and there. We feel ashamed if we have to stand in a queue along with sweaty average man to get our things done. We get angry if somebody doesn’t bow down his head after hearing us say – ‘ Jaanta Hai Mera Baap Kaun Hai’. If we love the joy and power of being different and superior and are capable to break the law and yet be unquestioned and shameless enough to flaunt it then why not the politicians for whom status cou is all but their very existence in this planet?

As it is questioning about logic to our beloved politicians is as fruitful as sending Ravindra Jadeja in the power play overs and dangerous too. A current Chief Minister serving his second stint is an example of what can happen when you start asking uncomfortable questions to our politicians and start looking for logic in their actions. No sooner he took oath for the first time B.C.Khanduri of Uttaranchal had to step down because his own MLAs seemed grossly disappointed with him as he urged them to shed away that red light and start behaving like a common man so that they can be closer to the realty. I am sure people like Mr. Khanduri are far and few. A genuine and applauding statement got the flack of its life from his own men just because it interfered with the status cou of the undeserving lot.

And honestly I don’t see a reason why our MPs shouldn’t have the red light on their cars. We all love some show of strength, so does our politicians, which in a way proves another point – they are still human beings. The red light becomes a more paramount issue for them when they see various government employees (much junior in ranks to them) flaunting the same for ages in their vehicle and yet are equally corrupt and useless for the nation.

For once I would cringe to see us shedding our typical Indian mentality of politician bashing and admit the demand of our MPs for the red light is genuine, if not logical or deserving. We all love the status cou and so as our elected representatives. Won’t all of us would love to put the same on our cars, bikes, cycles, provided we are allowed to?

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