This
is a bold new face of the Indian politics that is brazen, arrogant and
shocking.
This
is an audacious new front of the Indian politics that operates on zero
tolerance for morality.
This
is an immune new insensitivity of the Indian politics that says, “We will do
it the way it pleases us, come what may. If the democracy is in peril, let it
be.”
This
is a political class that indulges in corrupt activities but flatly denies any
accountability on behalf of the public office and public life it is supposed to
preserve at any cost.
Keeping
in line with this deafening tradition where any voice demanding probity in
political life has been made a fringe voice, we have had many political
developments of such proportions, especially in last five years. A simple
Internet search with search-tag ‘list of corruption cases or scams in India’ would dish
out volumes of information.
Pardon
me, if I am sounding redundant as such political developments have become so
many and have become so of a norm now that we are growing immune to their
impact on our lives, on survival of the Indian democracy.
True,
the Indian democracy is not so weak that a generation of self-serving
politicians can erode it. We recently saw massive spontaneous public uprisings
on issues like corruption and law and order. But we have not been able to leave
any impact. In fact, our voices have been pushed even farther away from the splurging
core of the political establishments. The growing hostility in the political
class to act on matters of accountability, morality and honesty tells us this.
It
is true that we are raising voices now and the process has begun but are we
realizing the scale of task that is before us?
Are
we prepared to battle it out over a longer period of time in face of an
increasingly immoral political class that is hell-bent to defy every norm set
by our forefathers to run the independent India?
The
fact is erosion is happening and the political class intends to employ its full
capacity to delay the process, at any cost.
So
our lords, the chosen ones, the elected gems of the Indian democracy, in their
new political avatars, are laughing, enjoying, while we, who elect them, are
looking at the developments with eyesight of morons.
How
long, we the Indians, electing the members of such a political class, can take
it?
The
answer is important for both the stakeholders. We, the Indians, would like to
see it happen soon while the political class would do all to kill even the
question.