Dear All
Today morning Ketan called me up to inform that another scam (Coal Mining Scam, from 2004-2009) has been unveiled by the CAG and the loss to exchequer has been (as estimated) Rs. 10+ lakh crore! Whooping number!!
I am sure we will get to hear very soon that there is actually ZERO revenue loss or there is RSS working behind it or both.
But let us introspect as citizens: Why all these scams are coming up now? Was CAG not aware of these before? If these scams are coming up why some are made scapegoats and then the whole issue goes into the cold bag? I mean these scams cannot be done without the connivance of whole of the system. I do not believe the fact that we have a bunch of stupid people running the government; I do not believe that they do not know anything of this sort and magnitude going on under their noses; I do not believe that the opposition does not get to know it.
We have supposedly the best brains running the government for us. Needless to say that PM, home minister, finance minister, commerce minister etc are few of the best brains not only in India but the world. But the sad part is that they are proving this wrong time and again. And I cannot believe that scams worth 1.76 lakh crore, 10+ lakh crore can happen and these top shots remain ignorant about them. probably there is lack of political will or I must say a hell of a lot of political pressure to ignore these things when they happen and when they are exposed, there are set guidelines to be followed by the government. There is a set standard that if something wrong is exposed, all the mechanism in government (and also outside the government) will try and divulge the media attention from the issue, will try and harass the people who exposed.
The recent example is that of Lokpal agitation. When the government found it hard to counter it with words, they fell to extreme levels. Thrown Baba first, beat Mr. Bhushan, framed Income Tax charges against Kejriwal and did not even leave India’s one of the best Cop Mrs. Bedi.
So this is the very nature of the government that they cannot do things right and cannot see other people finding faults against them, else they will be ruined.
So what do we do as citizens? Not everybody can join politics, not everybody can go on streets to start an agitation, not everyone can shout slogans against the corrupt but what we can do best is VOTE and vote for the candidate who is young, clean and educated. We do not need to vote for a specific party but for a person. Yes the people of this country have time and again shown that they do change the trends but we need to do that radically in the elections of 2014 and show to these inefficient people that stop testing the patience of a commoner. A Wednesday (the film) was a message to the common man as well as the government and the system that if common man’s patience is put to test time and again, he can go to any extent. Somebody asked what a common man can do? The simple answer to this is ‘Revolution’. May it be the Russian Revolution of 18th century or the revolutions in gulf countries recently, the common man if unites, can change the course of history. We will have to do that if the system does not improve in time. Our patience is being tested and this government has done everything to stretch our patience to the extreme levels. We are running a system of a week administrator and a week opposition. Here the king maker is strong and the king is just like the king on the chess board, moves the way the player wants.
The time is close when we will say ‘Boss, enough’ and mind me the day the youth says this, the new chapter rather a whole new book on Indian History will be created.
Signing off
Siddharth
3 comments:
Hey a very good thought.Thumbs up for the initiative!!
But I as a commoner find that many youngsters get frustrated when they here about scams like these and really want to do something against it..and u have given us a very approachable solution by asking us to vote for the right person....But the basic problem with people like me is that we dont know who the right person is or who should have been!!
So I think we should have a platform where people can share incidences of honest politicians who have really done good jobs for their constituencies atleast.This will help us to make the most important decision of who the right person is or who should be...
True ...Very true ...everyday we wake up and listen another scam n this time d scam which is 10+lakh crore is of d magnitude where ppl will stop believing totally in d system n we youngsters has already started to realise d value of VOTE .... only right selection of candidate can make this happen but as again even if v select d right candidate nothing remains in his hand as party high commands of both congress n BJP or ne other party make them work.... we together will hv to start something of d magntude tht we all can get into it n run into d system ...But time again we all can write well talk well or discuss into d issue but v practically find no actual way to run this concept ....I m just wondering if v can find d right way to finish all dis n make india a corruption free country in next 25yrs......Regarding Scams wenever i listen my heart sinks tht v as middle class ppl work day night just to collect some amount of money n even that money is gone into taxes n all n one day we wake up read newspaper n v know all our money which v earned n donated to d govt. is lying somewhere in Foreign bank accounts ....These Scams has to get stopped otherwise one entire class of india will b erased from history.....As again Congress which was suppositely a could b best government harassed us d most with just makin our hard earned money flow in Schemes like NAREGA whr ppl don hv to work whr there is no actual record is being kept just distribution of money is d only aim ..... n tht too only 10 or 20% is being utilised by d end ppl rest all has increased corruption like nething .
Recently i read an article where it was written due to Narega whr panchayat heads like sarpanch were made amongst d clan with mutual admiration now a days lakhs of rupees r being spend on elections just to win d seat n be d part of corruption d sarpanch once who didnt has money for d fuel in his bike now rides in cars like INNOVA.....
so sadly d stating of problems can never stop only thing which can happen is beginning of a revolution as said by SID by us n that can truly start with selection of right candidate who is clean !!!!
good work both u guys..like ur comments..may be we can meet more often and create a youth think tank..get sponsors/funds and use more young brains for finding the right persons..
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