Mani Shankar Aiyer, Congress MP to Rajya Sabha, yesterday in his characteristic outspoken way took on Team Anna Hazare for leading a movement against corruption which has reached gargantuan proportions in India. Mr.Aiyer’s anger, please note, is not against rampant corruption in India due to the rotten political system being followed by political parties since decades. Though Indian citizens were/are angered over the way, the politicians drag the system to the verge of abyss, they couldn’t find a savior to group them under a single umbrella, hence gritting their teeth, they kept mum for a long time waiting for someone to emerge out of the clouds one day.
All political parties including the ruling ones kept on harping about the system turning rotten and that something should have to be done immediately to stem the rot and like devils preaching scriptures, they went on preaching and took vows to root out the evil of corruption once and for all but virtually did nothing. Instead they too became part of the system and kept on blinking their eyes when their colleagues in a competitive spirit piled up lakhs, crores, millions and billions. We need not conduct a prolonged research to be kept abreast of these facts, the number of our MPs having millions and billions in their pockets are naked examples.
During recent times the skeletons that tumbled out of the cupboards are umpteen for instance, the 2GSpectrum scam which drained the exchequer of Rs. 1,760000 lakh crores, Common Wealth Games 2010 scam involving Rs. 70000 crore, Adarsh Housing Society scam involving millions a host of similar scams and scandals while 70 percent of Indians are still finding it difficult to keep both ends meet. Each family subsists on US $ 2 a day we can very well imagine an average family’s plight. Corporate-middle agent - politician nexus brought about the gargantuan losses to the exchequer and with each day passing along these lines it is not surprising that an Anna Hazare a social activist cum Gandhian emerged on the scene from Ralegaon, Ahmednagar Maharashtra.
With the inspiration drawn from several social activists like Karnataka Lokayukta, Santosh Hegde, Magsaysay award winner Aravind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi IPS, Supreme Court lawyers Shanti Bushan and his son Prashant Bushan and thousands of citizens, Hazare started a fast unto death against the ruling establishment and demanded the government to institute a council involving representatives from govt and civil society members. The rest is history. It is not worth repeating here as it was already written elsewhere.
During Hazare’s fast a few politicians like Om Prakash Chautala, Ajit Singh, Uma Bharti etc tried to reach Hazare to offer support(really funny) but the citizens present chanted ‘go back, go’ slogans against these leaders and they had to return empty handed.
Where were our politicians, when the nation was rotting with corruption of their own species, Mr.Mani Shanker Aiyer? Where you? You could have taken up cudgels against corruption in your capacity as a politician and an MP. Neither you nor any of the khadi-clad Gandhians and for that matter even communist leaders except waxing eloquent about the pervading corruption didn’t come out to the fore.
And now demanding Team Hazare to join politics and castigating them for not becoming part of the political establishment even going to the extent of Team Hazare circumventing democracy to put it mildly is ridiculous.
If the team keeps away from politicians it is because it is very well aware of Indian political parties. It is absolutely due to their connivance and also apathy that we witness a rotten India. Let the team proceed they are not here to upset the democratic system they are learned men and women and hence need not worry.
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