Yesterday, in my utter nonsense (http://severallyalone.blogspot.in/2012/10/thus-spake-beni-again-so-what-should-be.html), I had asked a very ‘aad aadmi’ type
question – is there a limit to the political nonsense in India
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No, it is not, the likes of Digvijay Singh tell us it in clear ways.
Day before yesterday, if it was Beni Prasad Verma,
yesterday, it was yet another gem of the grand old party of India
Mr. Singh, famous (notorious) for his persistent and motivated
remarks, was at it again, like Salman Khurshid was before vowing the media
silence, like Beni Prasad Verma’s corruption threshold, but unlike them,
Digvijay Singh was on the song.
The romp, the pomp and show that began after the
politician Arvind Kejriwal came out alleging Robert Vadra, the weakest list in
the most powerful family in India
But Digvijay Singh is Digvijay Singh – the ultimate one
piece. There can’t be anyone like him. He, in his typical verbose insinuations,
went a step further, got generic, ‘mixed’ his words with his thoughts on the
current episode of the political smug of his brethren, and came out warning
that the unwritten but widely followed ‘political code’ was breached owning to
the recent developments.
He said (some of the reports have used the term
‘lamented’), “There are ethics in politics. Never
attack family. Congress never attacked Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s son-in-law Ranjan
Bhattacharya or L K Advani’s son and daughter. Have we ever said a word against
them?”
There haven’t been much in the news about son
and daughter of L K Advani but same cannot be said about Ranjan Bhattacharya. He has faced allegation of malpractices but there was nothing in the name of probe (the code of ethics of the Indian politicians!).
Isn't like the oft-quoted criminal ethics line
that ‘gangs should not target families of the members of the rival gangs?’
Now gangsters so often flout it. Isn't it?
Even it happens so often in the Italian Mafiosi, the most organized of the
breed.
But such a code being followed by the politicians
in the second largest democracy of the world that is also home to the most of
the poor and illiterate people on the planet!
The Constitution framed over six decades ago
saw the politicians to be the harbingers of probity and envisioned they would
make a developed and prosperous India
Instead, they are indulged in making an
affluent, prosperous and unethical political class to rule the India
What Digvijay spoke is shocking and tells us
of the direct collusion among the politicians who look ready to rip each other
apart in the public.
What Digvijay spoke is the true face of the
Indian politics of the day and tells us of the theatrics these politicians put on
display to befool the ‘aam aadmi’ of their true intent.
What Digvijay spoke tells us that the politicians
across the breed have just one common glue, their selfish interests.
A person makes a cartoon targeting a politician
and is thrown behind the bars but when the likes of Digvijay say that they have
enough evidence to target kith and kin of this or that politician but they wouldn't do so because there exists a political code that so advises not to target the
families of the politicians, it reaffirms the growing public perception that
politicians of the day are the most corrupt and insensitive lot of people in
the country.
And if this 'Digvijay Speak' was in response to the corruption
allegations of the politician Arvind Kejriwal on Robert Vadra, we have all the
valid reasons to assume that what Digvijay was referring to was about the corruption
allegations on Ranjan Bhattacharya, son-in-law of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K
Advani’s son and daughter.
Isn't then Digvijay a complicit in crime of not exposing
criminal acts and corrupt practices?
Shouldn't all the politicians who follow this political
code in spirit and letter and allow others to indulge in the loot of the fund
meant for the ‘aam aadmi’ be tried to breach the ‘code’ of the democratic
spirit and probity?
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