Have you noticed how efficiently the Central Government and Andhra Pradesh State Government covered up the Ramalingam Raju financial bungling. No meaningful investigation was done. Raju gets VIP treatment in the Jail. What happened to the SEBI investigation, god only knows? Central Financial Ministry was quick to bail out Satyam but did next to nothing to find out where the all the crores had vanished. No one talks about the missing 5000 crores. Everyone is happy. Only the poor investor lost his shirt. But who cares for him anyway?
Mumbai 26/11 attack. Again nothing has happened. No arrests made. Everyone is happy blaming Pakistan. The attention neatly diverted from our local security failings and local support infrastructure to Pakistan. Lot of noises made. Indignation, finger wagging, couple of inconsquential heads rolling. In the end? Nothing happened. We are still unsafe as we were and no one bothers till the next attack. Then the whole drama is reenacted.
It is Election time once again. The pre poll haggling and posturing by various parties have revealed only one thing. That with every passing year, we are taking a few steps back on political maturity. In the din of controversies over seat sharing, have you noticed one thing? No political party has come out with any blue print for the next five years for the nations development. Of course, there will be some hash of a election manifesto that doesnt mean anything. I really wish someone will take the election manifesto or Common Minimum Program of UPA and do an analysis. I have the CMP, maybe I will do an analysis one of these days. None of our political parties have any ideology, any policy, any ethics, any responsibility, any strategy nor do they care about nation building. We might be the largest democracy in the World, but we are politically immature and ideologically bankrupt. We just elect tweedle dees or tweedle dums put up as puppets by a handful of corrupt leaders. How else can you explain the candidature of Pappu yadav, zillions of criminals, stupid film actors, even those who are convicted like Sanjay Dutt, scoundrels like Shibu Soren, Jagdish Tytler, a discredited cricketer like Azhahruddin, various leaders sons and daughters, false declaration of assets............. the list is endless. Even the PM Manmohan Singh who is yet to be elected to the Lok Sabha is planning not to contest in the Lok Sabha elections but to continue with his Rajya Sabha seat.
India will become a great country only if we shake of our diffidence and the 'chalta hai' attitude
