Now that everyone is aware of the fact, no other nation supports INDIA in attacking against its enemy. They act according to their interest. Few nations are jumping onto the action this time, because their citizens were part of the victims of the attacks. It’s their interest to show their citizens that the government is working. They are putting diplomatic pressure on the so called civilian government which makes a different statement everyday. The countries which put the pressure on that government are well aware of the fact that actual decision makers are not those jokers who blabber whatever that comes out of their mouth and blame the press for publicizing what they ACTUALLY spoke, so that they can take a 'U' turn on their own statements. The pressurizing nations also knew that they are not doing what is required, but they still do it to show that they are working on behalf of the victims. They didn’t do the same kind of diplomatic activities when their nations were the victims of attacks, but they pressurize INDIA to not to act against its enemies similar to what they did against theirs. It is simple, because it will conflict their interests. The creators of the terrorists are none other than the 2 big nations for their own self interests during the cold war. I don’t think any terrorist organization would acquire lethal arms and ammunition without the support of some military/government’s co-operation. Now, those nations knew that they are safe guarding the terrorists because of the fear that the whole world will come to know what they did. I was going through this article which gave me more insight: http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/dec/22mumterror-why-the-cia-does-not-want-dawood-in-indian-hands.htm
No nation talks about the list of wanted terrorists that INDIA requested to hand over. All of them are aware of the fact that those terrorists are international terrorists, but they were the backbones of the secret operations of a few countries and they can’t openly agree to it. As long as their countries are not a target, they don’t want to insist on their hand-over process. British government gave 6 Million pounds to Pakistan immediately after the Mumbai attacks. As a common man and a close minded person, it looks to me that British were bribing them to make sure that their country is not a target in near future. If they are giving away the money to fight the war on terror, why can’t they ask for the accountability? Why don’t they demand for questioning the arrested terrorists within Pakistan? They came to INDIA and questioned the terrorist alive, why don’t they demand Pakistan to give them access to the arrested terrorists when these nations are actually funding the operations against those terrorists. The funds are going into the country on the name of “War on terrorism”, but, I don’t see the news on arrested terrorists or interrogation of arrested terrorists on Pakistan’s soil. I never understood why they don’t insist on arresting the terrorist whom they themselves declared as global terrorists and wanted internationally. Doesn’t it be called as “War on Terror”? The real problem I understood when I read Jeremy Hammond’s article above. It made my thoughts concrete that every nation acts according to their interest, but not to help each other.
Coming to our own country, when the entire nation was mourning for the victims of recent attacks, a central minister comes out with a suspicious statement and tried to divert the attention of the nation and no one dares in the administration at least to condemn his remarks. That is nothing but the fear of loosing certain community votes in the coming elections. There were plenty of unnoticed religious leaders to second the statements of the minister. Did we elect the leaders who are afraid of defending their own government? I am not against any community or any political party, but at least the elected people should be able to defend themselves and condemn the wrong signaling remarks by a responsible minister. I don’t think the religious freedom is a sole right of a minority community, but also everyone. As long as there is a fear of sacking/condemning the leaders of certain community, I don’t think there will be a strong action against the culprits of that same community. As long as there is vote bank politics attached to the decision making, no fair justice would be expected. Why are we so insecure? Because we neither can defend ourselves nor can attack the enemies. The present government is acting purely according to their self interest. Everything is related to winning the next elections. I don’t think any political party is an exception in this regard. Every party wants a piece of it. Mr. TVR Shenoy is one of the columnists whom I admire for his specific analysis and details, here is what he wrote: http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/dec/27mumterror-why-congress-wont-make-antulay-say-sorry.htm
This article explained how bad we are going day by day. I pity myself having such kind of leaders and political parties to rule my country. I don’t know how the self esteemed leaders stick to the powerless chairs when they don’t even have a freedom to make a statement against their subordinates. If a prime mister has to take permission from his party chief to make press statements, I don’t understand how different we are from a dictatorship. Is the government working for the interest of a single family or the interest of the nation and its people? I am sick of looking at these family centric national parties. I don’t see anything different in local political parties as well. Only few families think that they were born to rule the rest for generations and they solely act according to their interests, nothing beyond that.
Coming to the common man, you and me, I was following the news articles online (most of them are INDIAN based). All I come to see is fighting themselves in the comments section. I don’t see any of them making any sense to the news items; they divert the topic onto North/South Indian or Hindu/Muslim religion. I personally call them educated illiterates and they are the root cause of the instability in INDIA. They never try to help anyone around; instead they always back bite the system. When we, as citizens, ourselves are so hateful to each other and expect others to be friendly and not to attack us. We make a big cry about the inability of our government for not acting against the nations. I have no idea how can we be unite and bring in the people’s government when the so called ELITE people fight within each other. When the whole world was looking at us and expecting us to change and do something ourselves, we start looking at each other with a suspicious and hatred feeling. I strongly feel that this is how we are getting divided and divided and there is no end to it. We don’t want to accept our wrong doings, instead we find a nice excuse to support ourselves and we buy it instantly. Everyone can easily have an exception for everything they do, but we need to realize somewhere that we are spoiling the system ourselves. We have to make sure that the self interest is not crossing the line of constitution. I don’t see anyone at least acting according to their self interests. Forget about helping the person next to you, but at least we should get rid of the hatred feeling. If you and I are acting according to our self interest, we still can do it without harming/hating the other person.
After writing my previous article, I tried to have conversations with my friends on the similar lines of changing ourselves; all I got in return was personal attacks. Most of their response was to wait and see, if someone comes out and changes the system. They want to support that kind of a person. I was asking them to support me to bring the change by changing themselves, but they have a family they can’t do it. Their excuse was that they have to act unconstitutional because of their family’s interest. To get things done for their family, they have to act according to the situation and get away to make sure that their family is not suffering. In their opinion, it’s O.K. if ONLY ONE out of the entire population is not following the rules and there won't be any change if ONLY ONE person follows the constitution, as all the others will not follow. BUT, REMEMBER, THEY STILL WANT TO SUPPORT SOMEONE WHO CAN CHANGE THE SYSTEM. FYI, The people I spoke to, everyone was highly educated. In their opinion, everybody is corrupted, we can’t do anything now….that is the reason they are acting according to their interest.
In conclusion, I observed, starting from the international community to the person next to you, EVERYONE ACTS ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN SELF INTEREST.
NOW, I am prepared to see the comments on what is my self interest in posting this here............
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008
The change we need....Where to start?
I have been closely following the aftermath of Mumbai attacks. I believe most of you are doing the same as well. I couldn't control so many questions that have been popping up in my mind and am still thinking loud here. I again want to mention that my perspective is purely personal and not intended to point at anyone and my blame game is only limited to me. NO ONE IS OBLIGATED TO FOLLOW MY IDEOLOGY.
So, another attack happened and we came out of it with a damage that no one would ever thought of having on the financial capital of INDIA. What's next? Should we just move on? I guess, media is already sidelining it, as they have another HOT TOPIC of assembly elections and results. I was going back and following some of the old literature to see if ME, as a common, can learn any lessons. What's happening since the days of 1993 blasts in Mumbai? It has been learned and identified by our agencies where the terrorists were coming from. Please visit this link: http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/mar/14raman.htm
I am expecting the same is the result this time too.
I am not going into the details of the international community backing INDIA. The investigations identified a lot of culprits and it took 15 years to bring them to justice, they are yet to be punished. It is common known fact that there were lot of politicians/bureaucrats/filmy people involved in backing the prime accused and in bringing such dangerous explosives into the country. All of them escaped by saying that they were corrupt and helped them by taking bribes, but they were not aware of the "massacre" that was going to occur. To my knowledge, lessons should have learned by our so called leaders and babus MUST be that no single official in the customs (especially, at the ports of entry into the country) and the police should be more attentive and not to allow anything to come into the country without knowing WHAT IT IS. But, the lessons learned were well documented and kept under the tables.
I have been recollecting the major incidents that made me disturbed since then. In 1998 Feb, again the terrorists attacked with human bombs in Coimbatore. I don't think these bombs were made within the country. From then on....terrorists are targeting INDIA at regular intervals with much more sophisticated armory/explosives every time...to recollect a few, Air India flight hijack in 1999, Parliament attack in 2001, Gujarat riots in 2002, Mumbai blasts in 2003, Delhi and Bangalore blasts in 2005, Mumbai and Varanasi blasts in 2006, Hyderabad blasts in 2007, blasts in Jaipur, Ahmadabad, Bangalore, Delhi and the latest in Mumbai in 2008.
There must be something identified/learned from each incident and should send strong signals to those people who directly/indirectly involve in such kind of acts that they can not do it next time. If we take the Air India flight (IC 814) Hijack, I strongly think that was purely an administrative fault in handling it. There was a very good chance at Amritsar to attack them or to stop them not to fly from there. As everyone knew, much to the embarrassment to the nation that our NSG commandos were stuck in traffic. Terrorists realized that there was something going against them and made the pilot to take-off in 30 seconds. We would have caught/killed 5 more terrorists in addition to the 3 terrorists released in exchange of passengers, if the NSG used a flight/choppers instead of going by road. We would have stopped attack on parliament and many other blasts, as our agencies identified that the mastermind behind the parliament attack was LeT and the prime accused was one of those released terrorist in exchange of passengers. This was the case in most of the incidents, as those released terrorists increased their grudge on our country.
The lessons learned must be, at least, to deploy the security forces as soon as possible on the site to prevent more damage. But, same mistake happened during the latest attack, as they made NSG to sit at the airport for 4 hours and they were not directed to go in into the Nariman house immediately even after they reached there. At least, few of the hostages would have been saved if our admistration learned lessons.
I do understand that there are many policies and procedures need to be followed at the highest level to take decisions on these kind of crises situations. But, it was evident during Rajiv Gandhi's (founder of NSG) period that they used IAF aircraft to deploy NSG in Maldives in an hour when they thought that there was a coup. I believe that a PM can make it happen.
Coming to my point of argument, had there been anything that we (you and me) should learn from the past. Forget about everything, at least to secure our life, the very existence. I don't think we learned anything till date. Again, my blame game starts with ME. YES, I AM BLAMING MYSELF, for my mistakes. I have done a few mistakes, somewhere I am responsible for doing things that are not correct. I am at mistake for not doing my part right as a Citizen. I want to mention here, how is the police or the other officials got corrupt? We made them corrupt. Yes, we are capable of giving them bribes and we never thought of thinking twice whether that was right or not. All we want is, getting things done. We always think, what will I do alone. Even if I do, the person behind me will not do the same thing and no one will follow, the entire system is corrupt and let me get away from it and get my work done. The person in front of me thought the same thing. The person behind me did the same thing, and the official didn't bother to verify what he has in his baggage/vehicle etc, as the officer got used to it with two people before. Likewise, the terrorists/anti social elements get their things done and the result is a crime. One of my friends indicated that there is a difference between CORRUPTION and CRIME, I believe that they have egg and chicken relationship.
Pardon me, if I am offending anyone reading this, but I want to mention that we are all at mistake. We have explanation for everything and anything to defend ourselves. We find a nice explanation by telling that I/you cannot do anything alone, THE ENTIRE SYSTEM/SOCIETY IS CORRUPT. What is a society/system? Are we not included in it? YES, we are the part of a society and we are making it corrupted and more crime vulnerable day by day. I am taking a routine example, If we don't have a driver's license, we will still drive as we are confident that we know how to drive, if we get caught...first thing we do is avoiding the fine, instead giving the bribe to the officer. If we really want to take a driver's license, a lot of things have to be done, we have to go to RTA office...stand in line and give a test....etc. That is all waste of time. We don't have that much time, but we will have time to stand in line for our favorite actor's movie and we do have time to go to our favorite restaurant/pub. If it is in the case of NRIs, never hesitate to bribe the customs people for small electronics and few of them don't hesitate to send money to INDIA through hawala to evade taxation. Similarly, we are doing it everywhere it is possible.
I am making it worse by not contributing myself what I should. YES, I AM BLAMING MYSELF for not learning right lessons. One good question came from one of my another friend. What is the solution now? the attacks happened.....what should we do now? what is your solution? he was asking, why shouldn't we attack the nation that is behind the attacks as the evidence is clear and every other nation in the world is doing the same. Yes, we should attack and we should smoke out every person behind it. Who should do it? You and me? NO, we don't have the authority right...so, we do all the lip movement. We will hue and cry, and we write here and there to show our anger who are at the authority. Who gave them the authority? why are they not doing the right thing that we want them as they are our representatives? Because, they have their own personal interests. YES, as we are doing whatever it takes to get our things done, they are doing the same, in order to secure their job/family/business, so....they are not doing what we want them to. Do we have a right to ask them? I think, NO. Because, you and me as good people were away in electing them, as we thought that politics are dirty.
I was explaining my friend who was arguing that mine is pure ideology which is possible in a perfect world. His point was that it is not possible, because the whole system is corrupted from top to bottom. Our grand parents thought the same, our parents thought the same, we are thinking the same and tomorrow, our children will think the same.....but, it didn't corrupt overnight. I am not expecting a perfect IDEAL world, but since the change we need NOW for the present situation, it has to start somewhere. It has to start with ME and YOU. If we start NOW, it will take time....but, it will happen. He was saying that..so many people tried before, they got tired and they are gone...nothing has changed. Did YOU try? Did I try?....that is my answer.
So, another attack happened and we came out of it with a damage that no one would ever thought of having on the financial capital of INDIA. What's next? Should we just move on? I guess, media is already sidelining it, as they have another HOT TOPIC of assembly elections and results. I was going back and following some of the old literature to see if ME, as a common, can learn any lessons. What's happening since the days of 1993 blasts in Mumbai? It has been learned and identified by our agencies where the terrorists were coming from. Please visit this link: http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/mar/14raman.htm
I am expecting the same is the result this time too.
I am not going into the details of the international community backing INDIA. The investigations identified a lot of culprits and it took 15 years to bring them to justice, they are yet to be punished. It is common known fact that there were lot of politicians/bureaucrats/filmy people involved in backing the prime accused and in bringing such dangerous explosives into the country. All of them escaped by saying that they were corrupt and helped them by taking bribes, but they were not aware of the "massacre" that was going to occur. To my knowledge, lessons should have learned by our so called leaders and babus MUST be that no single official in the customs (especially, at the ports of entry into the country) and the police should be more attentive and not to allow anything to come into the country without knowing WHAT IT IS. But, the lessons learned were well documented and kept under the tables.
I have been recollecting the major incidents that made me disturbed since then. In 1998 Feb, again the terrorists attacked with human bombs in Coimbatore. I don't think these bombs were made within the country. From then on....terrorists are targeting INDIA at regular intervals with much more sophisticated armory/explosives every time...to recollect a few, Air India flight hijack in 1999, Parliament attack in 2001, Gujarat riots in 2002, Mumbai blasts in 2003, Delhi and Bangalore blasts in 2005, Mumbai and Varanasi blasts in 2006, Hyderabad blasts in 2007, blasts in Jaipur, Ahmadabad, Bangalore, Delhi and the latest in Mumbai in 2008.
There must be something identified/learned from each incident and should send strong signals to those people who directly/indirectly involve in such kind of acts that they can not do it next time. If we take the Air India flight (IC 814) Hijack, I strongly think that was purely an administrative fault in handling it. There was a very good chance at Amritsar to attack them or to stop them not to fly from there. As everyone knew, much to the embarrassment to the nation that our NSG commandos were stuck in traffic. Terrorists realized that there was something going against them and made the pilot to take-off in 30 seconds. We would have caught/killed 5 more terrorists in addition to the 3 terrorists released in exchange of passengers, if the NSG used a flight/choppers instead of going by road. We would have stopped attack on parliament and many other blasts, as our agencies identified that the mastermind behind the parliament attack was LeT and the prime accused was one of those released terrorist in exchange of passengers. This was the case in most of the incidents, as those released terrorists increased their grudge on our country.
The lessons learned must be, at least, to deploy the security forces as soon as possible on the site to prevent more damage. But, same mistake happened during the latest attack, as they made NSG to sit at the airport for 4 hours and they were not directed to go in into the Nariman house immediately even after they reached there. At least, few of the hostages would have been saved if our admistration learned lessons.
I do understand that there are many policies and procedures need to be followed at the highest level to take decisions on these kind of crises situations. But, it was evident during Rajiv Gandhi's (founder of NSG) period that they used IAF aircraft to deploy NSG in Maldives in an hour when they thought that there was a coup. I believe that a PM can make it happen.
Coming to my point of argument, had there been anything that we (you and me) should learn from the past. Forget about everything, at least to secure our life, the very existence. I don't think we learned anything till date. Again, my blame game starts with ME. YES, I AM BLAMING MYSELF, for my mistakes. I have done a few mistakes, somewhere I am responsible for doing things that are not correct. I am at mistake for not doing my part right as a Citizen. I want to mention here, how is the police or the other officials got corrupt? We made them corrupt. Yes, we are capable of giving them bribes and we never thought of thinking twice whether that was right or not. All we want is, getting things done. We always think, what will I do alone. Even if I do, the person behind me will not do the same thing and no one will follow, the entire system is corrupt and let me get away from it and get my work done. The person in front of me thought the same thing. The person behind me did the same thing, and the official didn't bother to verify what he has in his baggage/vehicle etc, as the officer got used to it with two people before. Likewise, the terrorists/anti social elements get their things done and the result is a crime. One of my friends indicated that there is a difference between CORRUPTION and CRIME, I believe that they have egg and chicken relationship.
Pardon me, if I am offending anyone reading this, but I want to mention that we are all at mistake. We have explanation for everything and anything to defend ourselves. We find a nice explanation by telling that I/you cannot do anything alone, THE ENTIRE SYSTEM/SOCIETY IS CORRUPT. What is a society/system? Are we not included in it? YES, we are the part of a society and we are making it corrupted and more crime vulnerable day by day. I am taking a routine example, If we don't have a driver's license, we will still drive as we are confident that we know how to drive, if we get caught...first thing we do is avoiding the fine, instead giving the bribe to the officer. If we really want to take a driver's license, a lot of things have to be done, we have to go to RTA office...stand in line and give a test....etc. That is all waste of time. We don't have that much time, but we will have time to stand in line for our favorite actor's movie and we do have time to go to our favorite restaurant/pub. If it is in the case of NRIs, never hesitate to bribe the customs people for small electronics and few of them don't hesitate to send money to INDIA through hawala to evade taxation. Similarly, we are doing it everywhere it is possible.
I am making it worse by not contributing myself what I should. YES, I AM BLAMING MYSELF for not learning right lessons. One good question came from one of my another friend. What is the solution now? the attacks happened.....what should we do now? what is your solution? he was asking, why shouldn't we attack the nation that is behind the attacks as the evidence is clear and every other nation in the world is doing the same. Yes, we should attack and we should smoke out every person behind it. Who should do it? You and me? NO, we don't have the authority right...so, we do all the lip movement. We will hue and cry, and we write here and there to show our anger who are at the authority. Who gave them the authority? why are they not doing the right thing that we want them as they are our representatives? Because, they have their own personal interests. YES, as we are doing whatever it takes to get our things done, they are doing the same, in order to secure their job/family/business, so....they are not doing what we want them to. Do we have a right to ask them? I think, NO. Because, you and me as good people were away in electing them, as we thought that politics are dirty.
I was explaining my friend who was arguing that mine is pure ideology which is possible in a perfect world. His point was that it is not possible, because the whole system is corrupted from top to bottom. Our grand parents thought the same, our parents thought the same, we are thinking the same and tomorrow, our children will think the same.....but, it didn't corrupt overnight. I am not expecting a perfect IDEAL world, but since the change we need NOW for the present situation, it has to start somewhere. It has to start with ME and YOU. If we start NOW, it will take time....but, it will happen. He was saying that..so many people tried before, they got tired and they are gone...nothing has changed. Did YOU try? Did I try?....that is my answer.
I believe the system is always right. The game and the game rules are always intact, but the players are foul playing. We are the selectors of the players, but we became the spectators. We are blaming them for failure and praising them for success. Since, we didn't use the chance of selecting the right players, we are experiencing the bad results. If we select the right players, they use the right resources in the right way at the right time. They learn the right lessons for the betterment.
How should we do? I should start with me and you should stat with you. Lets not think that nothing will happen....if I, alone don't obey the rules and don't contribute to the country as a citizen. If I start with me, behaving myself, not to entertain bribes and use the right of vote to elect the right representative.....it will fall in place. Today, me and you....tomorrow, my/your family, friends, community, region, religion and the nation. It should start at the root of the problem. My friends' argument has been that the good people will become bad once they get the power, but it is not the case always. There are good people in the present day politics too, they are trying to do good, but they are dominated by the spoiled people around them. We need more good people to see the change. It will change if we go together. It may take little longer, but it will be permanent.
YES, I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR MY GUILTINESS, I learned lessons and I am determined to change. I am determined to change my family and my friends who can come with me. It may be late, but it is better than never. NO BRIBES out of my hands and NOT TO take advantage of the rules/loop holes which are unconstitutional.
THE CHANGE WE NEED.....I AM STARTING WITH MYSELF.........
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Are these politicians leaders?
This is the first time I am writing a blog in my life. I can't stop crying by looking at my beloved motherland suffering from recent terrorist attacks and the aftermath going in my home country. Thanks to the politicians who made me to express my vengeance on them.
If anybody has any doubts, if we are not following the Gandhism in our country, the last four years or so is a perfect proof for them that we are still the followers of Mahatma Gandhi. He told us only to show the other cheek, if one slaps on one cheek. But, we are showing the terrorists another city after they attack one city.... Mumbai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Ahmadabad, Delhi Malegoan, Mumbai......city after city....YES, WE ARE THE TRUE FOLLOWERS OF GANDHI.
I was thinking about who is a leader and who is a politician? Can these politicians call themselves as leaders? I want to start from the top level, is our Prime minister a leader? If so, why didn't he save us from terrorists or lead us in a right direction by avoiding the attacks. If he is a leader, why didn't he take the responsibility for the attacks instead of making the home minister resign. PM is equally responsible in selecting such an irresponsible team of ministers in his cabinet. Is Shivraj patil a leader or a politician when he said "Got rid of the burden" when they made him resign? Was he feeling that the ministry a burden after shamelessly enjoying the power for four and half years even 30+ terrorist attacks happened under his rule. Is he a leader or a politician who changed his suit 3 times for press meets when the blasts happened in Delhi? These are the leaders and followers of the nation for which Gandhi fought for by not wearing a shirt also.
Is there anyone a leader in the opposition parties? Why are they blaming the government instead of co-operating in taking the right measures? Why didn't they address the nation along with the government at least to show the enemies that WE ARE TOGETHER when there is a crisis? Why didn't they stop the attack on parliament when they were in power? What are they doing with the arrested terrorist who is enjoying all the FIVE STAR amenities in jail?
Was Sardar Vallabhai Patel a leader, when he resigned from his railway ministry by taking the responsibility when there was a train accident. OR was R. R. Patil a leader who was reluctant to leave his ministry instead making a comment "It's common that these kind of things happen in large cities like Mumbai". Was he out of brains? Is Vilasrao Desmukh a leader when he, doesn't want resign himself... but for the sake of of High-command, took out his sons and film makers to visit the effected areas at the expense of taxpayers for their security. Is Achutanandan a leader when he made a comment on the BRAVE officer's family “Even a dog would not have glanced at that house had it not been (Major) Sandeep’s residence.” Friends, These are a few examples of the heights of our so called "political leaders"
In my opinion, there is a lot of difference between a leader and a politician, but our system invented a new term that is "political leader", so that they can always be politicians under the blanket of a leader. They seldom become leaders at the time of elections and wear the politician's suit as soon as they get elected.
All I want to cry here about is, are we electing the politicians or the leaders to rule us? Whichever the party they are in. Why don't we open our eyes and look up to the families of slain officers like Hemanth Karkare, which rejected Rs. 1 crore from Gujarat CM and NSG officer Unnikrishnan's father who threw a Chief Minister out of his home. Why do these shameless brats need NSG/SPG security with Z-plus category? If they are of true leaders, why do they need such kind of security at the expense of our hard earned pennies? Are they elected to give the security to normal citizens or to enjoy the safest possible security at the expense of taxpayers? Why do these less than 1% of population need the safest security with the best armed forces when the entire nation's security is at risk? Why can't these politicians roam around in their own constituencies without security, after all they are with those people who elected them.
Because, it is a prestige to have NSG/SPG or Z/Y category security these days, not only to those politicians, but their families. Not only when they are in power, but even when they are out of it. Can we recollect at least a single incident where these politicians/families faced any kind of attack by the anti-social elements, except their own personal enemies? NO, there was no single incident in 61 years of independence. But, still we are carrying the burden of providing the BEST security to these politicians (not leaders) and their families.
Don't they have money to arrange their own security, THEY DO. YES, each politician can afford theirs' and their families' security with their salaries itself. They can also provide employment to thousands of aspirant youngsters. But, they want to save each and every penny when they are in power to make sure that they can be elected next time by offering the same money to the voters. If not them, they will make sure that their wife/son/daughter would become a politician for the next few generations. Don't we have younger leaders? Why do we need politicians who are aged 80 and lick the high-commands' boots for some or the other power? Who the hell on this earth would think to kill these guys? I can understand that it is mandatory to secure our leaders when they are in power. But, why are we paying for the securities of politicians and their families for their lifetime?
You and me don't care about all these things, because we are busy in earning our bread for the day. We are more worried, if we have a job and our brothers and sisters have jobs. After that, we are worried about our cousins, friends, then our community, caste, the region and the religion. Even if we have some time, we will go out for a good movie or a nice restaurant to have some peaceful time. But, folks...THEY ARE NO LONGER SAFE.
At least, lets start here and NOW. Lets think about OUR OWN security, forget about the society and the nation. Yes, we can do something for ourselves, please don't think "what can I do alone". YES YOU CAN. YES, you can influence at least 2 - 3 people around you. Please don't think that politics are dirty. If we think like that, they are making our lives dirtier and the dirtiest possible. No more Politrickle (yes, trickle) speeches around us or in the screen (TV) in front of us.
Don't stay away from the evil, try to face it.....and change it, otherwise, WE ARE NOT SAFE.
MERA BHARATH MAHAAN. LETS MAKE IT A SAFE HEAVEN
If anybody has any doubts, if we are not following the Gandhism in our country, the last four years or so is a perfect proof for them that we are still the followers of Mahatma Gandhi. He told us only to show the other cheek, if one slaps on one cheek. But, we are showing the terrorists another city after they attack one city.... Mumbai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Ahmadabad, Delhi Malegoan, Mumbai......city after city....YES, WE ARE THE TRUE FOLLOWERS OF GANDHI.
I was thinking about who is a leader and who is a politician? Can these politicians call themselves as leaders? I want to start from the top level, is our Prime minister a leader? If so, why didn't he save us from terrorists or lead us in a right direction by avoiding the attacks. If he is a leader, why didn't he take the responsibility for the attacks instead of making the home minister resign. PM is equally responsible in selecting such an irresponsible team of ministers in his cabinet. Is Shivraj patil a leader or a politician when he said "Got rid of the burden" when they made him resign? Was he feeling that the ministry a burden after shamelessly enjoying the power for four and half years even 30+ terrorist attacks happened under his rule. Is he a leader or a politician who changed his suit 3 times for press meets when the blasts happened in Delhi? These are the leaders and followers of the nation for which Gandhi fought for by not wearing a shirt also.
Is there anyone a leader in the opposition parties? Why are they blaming the government instead of co-operating in taking the right measures? Why didn't they address the nation along with the government at least to show the enemies that WE ARE TOGETHER when there is a crisis? Why didn't they stop the attack on parliament when they were in power? What are they doing with the arrested terrorist who is enjoying all the FIVE STAR amenities in jail?
Was Sardar Vallabhai Patel a leader, when he resigned from his railway ministry by taking the responsibility when there was a train accident. OR was R. R. Patil a leader who was reluctant to leave his ministry instead making a comment "It's common that these kind of things happen in large cities like Mumbai". Was he out of brains? Is Vilasrao Desmukh a leader when he, doesn't want resign himself... but for the sake of of High-command, took out his sons and film makers to visit the effected areas at the expense of taxpayers for their security. Is Achutanandan a leader when he made a comment on the BRAVE officer's family “Even a dog would not have glanced at that house had it not been (Major) Sandeep’s residence.” Friends, These are a few examples of the heights of our so called "political leaders"
In my opinion, there is a lot of difference between a leader and a politician, but our system invented a new term that is "political leader", so that they can always be politicians under the blanket of a leader. They seldom become leaders at the time of elections and wear the politician's suit as soon as they get elected.
All I want to cry here about is, are we electing the politicians or the leaders to rule us? Whichever the party they are in. Why don't we open our eyes and look up to the families of slain officers like Hemanth Karkare, which rejected Rs. 1 crore from Gujarat CM and NSG officer Unnikrishnan's father who threw a Chief Minister out of his home. Why do these shameless brats need NSG/SPG security with Z-plus category? If they are of true leaders, why do they need such kind of security at the expense of our hard earned pennies? Are they elected to give the security to normal citizens or to enjoy the safest possible security at the expense of taxpayers? Why do these less than 1% of population need the safest security with the best armed forces when the entire nation's security is at risk? Why can't these politicians roam around in their own constituencies without security, after all they are with those people who elected them.
Because, it is a prestige to have NSG/SPG or Z/Y category security these days, not only to those politicians, but their families. Not only when they are in power, but even when they are out of it. Can we recollect at least a single incident where these politicians/families faced any kind of attack by the anti-social elements, except their own personal enemies? NO, there was no single incident in 61 years of independence. But, still we are carrying the burden of providing the BEST security to these politicians (not leaders) and their families.
Don't they have money to arrange their own security, THEY DO. YES, each politician can afford theirs' and their families' security with their salaries itself. They can also provide employment to thousands of aspirant youngsters. But, they want to save each and every penny when they are in power to make sure that they can be elected next time by offering the same money to the voters. If not them, they will make sure that their wife/son/daughter would become a politician for the next few generations. Don't we have younger leaders? Why do we need politicians who are aged 80 and lick the high-commands' boots for some or the other power? Who the hell on this earth would think to kill these guys? I can understand that it is mandatory to secure our leaders when they are in power. But, why are we paying for the securities of politicians and their families for their lifetime?
You and me don't care about all these things, because we are busy in earning our bread for the day. We are more worried, if we have a job and our brothers and sisters have jobs. After that, we are worried about our cousins, friends, then our community, caste, the region and the religion. Even if we have some time, we will go out for a good movie or a nice restaurant to have some peaceful time. But, folks...THEY ARE NO LONGER SAFE.
At least, lets start here and NOW. Lets think about OUR OWN security, forget about the society and the nation. Yes, we can do something for ourselves, please don't think "what can I do alone". YES YOU CAN. YES, you can influence at least 2 - 3 people around you. Please don't think that politics are dirty. If we think like that, they are making our lives dirtier and the dirtiest possible. No more Politrickle (yes, trickle) speeches around us or in the screen (TV) in front of us.
Don't stay away from the evil, try to face it.....and change it, otherwise, WE ARE NOT SAFE.
MERA BHARATH MAHAAN. LETS MAKE IT A SAFE HEAVEN
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