Let us ask our parliamentarians

What did you all do in the last two decades after for the first time some media outside this country unveiled that kickbacks were paid in the Bofors’ deal? Who did you punish when you were told that a suitcase containing crores of rupees entered the then PM house? Who did you nail when a journalist tried to expose manipulations and money transactions in arms’ deals? Give me one politician’s name who was put behind bar for Hawala transactions. Whom did you hang for paying money for voting inside the parliament? How much of the lacs of crores that have been lost in the 2G scame have yet been recovered? What plans have been executed for recovery of the loot done during CWG preparations? When did you set a deadline to bring back the illegally deposited Indian money in Swiss bank? And for God’s sake who had stopped you to table and pass your version of Lokpal bill for all these years? And now you still need time?

Please admit that you have no face left to ask for time and no trick left to execute your age-old delaying tactics. You have already put the integrity and sanctity of parliament to shame and placed our democracy at stake. You have played with our patience. You always believed that you get a license to dictate your terms once you get elected. Do not put our patience to test. You have already tested our patience by taking turns to exploit us at your will. All these years we have been given only a choice of whom we would prefer for our own exploitation.

At this juncture please do not tell us how a law should be framed. The arrogance with which you handled the Ramdev agitation and intent that you are exhibiting while tackling the Anna movement only confirms our apprehensions that once voted to power you consider yourself as if you have joined the ranks of British Rulers. Your deeds have started shaking our confidence in democracy. It is not solely our duty to save democracy but it is also in your interest to reestablish our faith in democratic set-ups. Himalaya will not explode if a ‘non-critically analyzed’, ‘ill-prepared’ Lokpal bill is passed. Heavens will not fall if you accept the Jan Lokpal bill in the present form. There are so many rules waiting for modifications but lying unattended before you for years’ together. Can you yourself claim that all rules in its existing form are absolutely perfect and would never require a change? Please add one more to that list even if you do not agree with all the formulations of the Jan Lokpal bill. As you must realize that you only have put us at such a logjam that only this can put our faith back into democracy with some certainty and for this a 72 year old is on fast for last so many days. I would not like that the government awakes on this issue only at a point of no return when the crowd decides to pay the arrogance back to our parliamentarians. The time is surely slipping by…………

Parliament: The Dirtiest Den of Corruption

Mr. Manish Tiwari, you wanted us to accept that Anna is corrupt, but then didn’t you wish to use this only to make us accept corruption as your way of life? Mr. Digvijay wanted us to believe that Baba Ramdev has cheated us and amassed an enormous wealth but didn’t he mean to set that only as an example to justify corruption? Not that we do not know that you do not have a magic wand Mr. Prime Minister but what is hurting us more is that you do not even wish to possess one. We need no explanations as we now understand how our ‘honest’ Prime Minister wastes all his ‘honesty’ to save the culprits and we also need no clarifications from him as to why he uses his ‘honesty’ in selecting only a few who can be hanged in the name of corruption. The manner in which this government attempted to expose the source and destination of all money transactions of Ramdev in just a few days and the way it miserably failed to showcase any such result in any of the scams listed as Bofors to CWG/2G, have left us with no options but to believe in the obvious. We all understand that corruption will not end the day a bill is passed in the parliament. We all are not lawyers and that too as manipulative as you Mr. Sibbal, but we know that it will also not end by pleading helplessness in the name of growing economy or by accepting your initial contention that there was no loss of public money in the 2G scam or by using police force in the mid-night on helpless and sleeping people gathered to voice their protest against corruption. And this will also not end by forcing us in believing that the law does not permit any bill to be finalised outside the parliament.
Mr. Sibbal and his party must feel very fortunate as the issue has been taken up by the law abiding Indian civil society. Indian society has always believed in waiting till He appears in a new reincarnation and takes all the laws in His hands to wipe out the evils. We are still peacefully requesting, arguing and urging you to pass a bill in the same parliament that has been evolved as the dirtiest den of corruption. Society has still not taken law justifiably in its hands as Mr. Sibbal is wise enough to understand what is meant by this phrase. Please stop befooling everybody by showcasing cosmetic gestures in the name of tackling corruption and hanging small fries who will never be able to return back even a small percentage of the money that the scams have siphoned out of this country.
Howsoever humid the weather be but dews are formed only when a cool surface is found by the water vapour; howsoever filled up the atmosphere be with a combustible gas but it requires at least a spark to blow it up. This nation is unfortunate that no politician, across the entire spectrum of our political parties, is left with a face that can mobilise the restless mass, who have crossed their threshold limits way back, to come out on the streets and wage a war against corruption. We had to wait for an Anna for this to happen. It is pity that our parliament has turned into a dog-fighting street where political parties fight just for their turn of exploiting this country. Let me enlighten you Mr. Sibbal that those who documented provisions for making laws only in the parliament could have never dreamt of this situation where even in an independent India the parliamentarians are still engaged in looting and siphoning the smiles out of the faces of ordinary countrymen.
It is now more than obvious that our Prime Minister is not even willing to acquire the magic wand as he is rejecting a potential magic wand that is being offered to him by Anna. However we all must feel satisfied that the great puzzle - that whose clothes were snatched by Baba Ramdev when he was being beaten out of the Ramlila ground - is now solved as we witness the government standing exposed with nothing left to hide and all its modesty outraged.