We are to be blamed. We cannot shirk the responsibility. And
so we are rightly to be condemned.
But who are we?
Are we the idiots, the nonsensical stuff, who are
tailor-made to remain so.
You may disagree but, logically, I am correct.
What else should we be when we, so foolishly, elect the
set of corrupt and criminally tainted politicians year after year, election
after election?
What else should we be when we blindly follow the godmen
who defy every tenet of godly behaviour?
Who else could we be when fail to identify what is good
for us, what is bad for us, what is practical for us, and what is logical for
us?
Who else could we be when we repeat the mistake, again and
again, not learning from the innumerable chances that our mistakes, that our
errors of judgement, that our misplaced sense of discretion, give us, again and
again.
Politics is supposed to be the sociological function to
shape and strengthen the democracy in a country like India. Politicians are supposed to
be the elected custodians to serve the cause of the people to support the
elements of democracy.
Religion is supposed to be the ideological, spiritual and social
function that inculcates a discipline to follow life according to the norm in a
society, a norm that intends to promote the humane values, the concept of ‘humanity
first’.
But, both, politics and religion are creating effects, events
and undercurrents in the society and in the country that are antithesis to
these supposed functions.
Add to it the cancerous concoction of religion and
politics. It completes the circle of exploitation, of democracy, in the name of
democracy.
And we, the idiots, are source of this jeopardy.
We keep on electing leaders while they are in jails. We
keep on voting them in power even if they are illiterate, have been
incarcerated for their criminal attributes, have court cases piled up against
them, and are even alleged of murdering other human beings. The proportion of
such politicians in the political lot is increasing at a dominating rate.
We keep on following and worshipping babas, the godmen,
like fanatics even if they are jailed for allegations like rape and murder,
even if they throw tantrums like film celebrities, even if they defy the god
the name of whom they use to sanctify their unholy godliness.
Yes, we are to be blamed. We cannot shirk the
responsibility. And so we are rightly to be condemned for the predicament we
are in, for the imminent threat the Indian democracy is in.