The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Tuesday 7 May 2013

THE BOLD NEW INDIAN POLITICS & ASHWANI KUMAR, PAWAN BANSAL AND THE MS-OFFICE (MANMOHAN SINGH, WHO ELSE?)

Let’s take the trend-setting and norm-establishing deeds of the breed of politicians of this generation who are neck-deep in corruption but are refusing to budge, who are in denial of their wrongdoings even if it is proven beyond doubt, even if it is there for everyone to see.

We have, here, the ruling coalition of India and its leading party, Congress, in the driving seat topping the corrupt-pack, with its high-profile leaders zooming to be in vogue of new highs of corruption and manipulation of the public office.

And this all is happening under the ‘able’ guidance of the prime minister of India, Mr. Manmohan Singh and his office, which has become exceptionally active, an otherwise comfortably numb prime minister.

Our dear Manmohan Singh and his ‘MS Office’ have enriched us with such many developments in the last few weeks and Manmohan Singh is clearly emerging victorious in the latest incarnation of the Indian politics that is bold,  brazen and immune to any criticism, even if a justified one in the public perception. The list of his gems adorning the list of corrupts is long, from Suresh Kalmadi to A Raja to Ashwani Kumar to Pawan Kumar Bansal.

While the development of the long list did involve some cases of surrender by the politicians when they had no other option left to manipulate and continue clinging to the power, the recent high profile cases of Manmohan’s two trusted aides, who incidentally come from his home state Punjab, Minister of Law & Justice Ashwani Kumar and Minister of Railways, Pawan Kumar Bansal, are representative of the new thinking of the Indian politics that has started believing in its right to absolute denial, not caring even if they do not have any option left to manipulate any more.

Now, they simply say they won’t surrender even if the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court of India, alleges them of breach of trust.  

If they don’t care for the Supreme Court of India, who we are then to be taken seriously, though, we elect them and therefore, we give them the power to manipulate?


So the Congress is up, in arms, in brazen defense of its these two tainted ministers saying they won’t resign, when they should have resigned already, even if they go by the standard set by A Raja and Suresh Kalmadi.

And all this is happening the under the watch of MS-Office

One of the duo, safe in the troubled waters, Ashwani Kumar, has subverted the guidelines set by the Supreme Court. The apex court had asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) not to share the status reports of the coal block allocation scam probe with the political executive. But, as the reports say, Mr. Kumar, the coal ministry and the MS Office directed the CBI Director, who says he is very much part of the government (the government that beats the bush every day claiming CBI’s independent functioning), to modify the status report in the investigation of a case in which Manmohan and his government is facing the heat.

Isn’t it like asking a thief to probe himself and come up with the investigation report so that he could be sentenced?

The other one, safe in the troubled waters, Pawan Kumar Bansal, until now seen as a non-controversial and clean politician, has got embroiled in an age-old scam of India where, in case of government jobs, a huge sum of money changes hands before any high-profile and lucrative transfer and posting takes place.

With every passing day, more and more skeletons are tumbling out telling us how companies were built in the name of Bansal’s son and wife; how they registered meteoric growth in a span of few years only; how the main accused in the case, his nephew Vijay Singla, was so close to him and how he managed his 2009 Lok Sabha election campaign; and how the Bansal family members share business interests with Vijay Singla. Being the Railway Minister, appointment for the Railway Board position for which the bribe was offered comes under directly overview of Mr. Bansal.

Had there been even an iota of verity in the claims of Mr. Bansal of being a clean politician, he would have resigned on the day his nephew was arrested for brokering the bribery deal misusing his department and his name.

He needed to come out clean. He needs to come out clean. And so Mr. Ashwani Kumar, and so Mr. Manmohan Singh, and so every other politician charged with allegations of manipulating and corrupting the public office.

They simply cannot be allowed to trade and tread our trust, again and again.

But this bold new breed of Indian Politicians is doing exactly that. This bold new breed of Indian Politicians believes in killing every such spirit. And they get support when they see that we, the voters, are short of options; when they see that we, the voters, are not able to make informed decisions while electing them.

A good case in point is the Karnataka assembly elections. Congress, neck-deep in corruption is poised to win when the votes are counted on May 8 because the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) government has lost its credibility due to massive and widespread corruption in the state under its regime.

See! We, the voters, are replacing one corrupt regime with regime of another political party that, in all probability, is going to lose the next parliamentary elections, due to the massive and widespread corruption in the country under its regime.

We, the Indian voters, wandering in the troubled waters, facing the classic dilemma of choosing between Scylla and Charybdis! Isn’t it?

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