My Take on today's Headlines
So now it is me having a go at the most sensational topic enrapturing India: the Lokpal Bill.
However, unlike others I am not going to indulge myself in the reasons why the Bill must be affected or what the Bill’s ideal clauses must read. I do not know about others but I can surely say that I have derived most interest in the implications this Bill has had, is having and will have on Indian politics.
Firstly, for the very first time since Pre-1947 the Congress is facing its biggest ever challenge – and this time it has come from a non-politically inclined mandate. A cause that is seemingly raised by and for the people, the Lokpal Bill, has succeeded in using the one trump card the Congress has thrived on for decades now and has used it against the mammoth – its Gandhi Image. Now that I say it, I find it ironical how the title ‘mammoth’ so aptly befits the Congress. For an animal of that size could only have been killed by using its weight against it. So it seems beautifully coincidental how its beloved ‘Gandhi’ image has become a noose around its neck for the Congress.
As a political party - which has so many skeletons in its closet that a graveyard would be a more appropriate metaphor – the Congress has probably done more damage than good to our nation. Riddled with controversies, this party now functioning at the behest of an even more controversial family, finds itself in a situation no other political entity would ever want to be in.
If it wasn’t for the controversies and the guilt, the ruling Government would have no reason to raise objection to the passage of this Bill – for the Lokpal Bill will finally do justice to the true vision the great Mahatma had foreseen for his fellow Indians. Maybe this is also the same reason no other political party has the courage to stand up and embrace the Lokpal Bill with open arms. And all their endless deliberating isn't helping their cause - the guilt becomes all the more evident!
Stalwart Yashwant Sinha's opting resignation from the BJP isn’t about his party’s lack of drive in taking a stand for the Bill and Hazare. It is an acknowledgement of his party’s share in the corrupt bureaucratic system that plagues our country; and possibly his way of coming clean?
But the beauty of the entire debacle lies in the subtlety of the underlying politics. It is as apparent as can be but thanks to a majority of the Indian masses - which rather disappointingly has the attention span of a housefly – it is lost just like an individual’s identity in a mob. Personally, I think this is a good thing, especially considering the circumstances and possible outcomes. Or else the same majority of our masses would have continued to glorify the Gandhi-imaged Congress as long as the ‘adopted Gandhi-surname’ family lived!
Maybe, right from the start, this is what was intended - Irreparable damage to the Congress.
I seem to take so much pleasure in writing ill of this political outfit that I think I will keep up a chain of posts regarding the Congress’s ugly under-belly.
However, unlike others I am not going to indulge myself in the reasons why the Bill must be affected or what the Bill’s ideal clauses must read. I do not know about others but I can surely say that I have derived most interest in the implications this Bill has had, is having and will have on Indian politics.
Firstly, for the very first time since Pre-1947 the Congress is facing its biggest ever challenge – and this time it has come from a non-politically inclined mandate. A cause that is seemingly raised by and for the people, the Lokpal Bill, has succeeded in using the one trump card the Congress has thrived on for decades now and has used it against the mammoth – its Gandhi Image. Now that I say it, I find it ironical how the title ‘mammoth’ so aptly befits the Congress. For an animal of that size could only have been killed by using its weight against it. So it seems beautifully coincidental how its beloved ‘Gandhi’ image has become a noose around its neck for the Congress.
As a political party - which has so many skeletons in its closet that a graveyard would be a more appropriate metaphor – the Congress has probably done more damage than good to our nation. Riddled with controversies, this party now functioning at the behest of an even more controversial family, finds itself in a situation no other political entity would ever want to be in.
If it wasn’t for the controversies and the guilt, the ruling Government would have no reason to raise objection to the passage of this Bill – for the Lokpal Bill will finally do justice to the true vision the great Mahatma had foreseen for his fellow Indians. Maybe this is also the same reason no other political party has the courage to stand up and embrace the Lokpal Bill with open arms. And all their endless deliberating isn't helping their cause - the guilt becomes all the more evident!
Stalwart Yashwant Sinha's opting resignation from the BJP isn’t about his party’s lack of drive in taking a stand for the Bill and Hazare. It is an acknowledgement of his party’s share in the corrupt bureaucratic system that plagues our country; and possibly his way of coming clean?
But the beauty of the entire debacle lies in the subtlety of the underlying politics. It is as apparent as can be but thanks to a majority of the Indian masses - which rather disappointingly has the attention span of a housefly – it is lost just like an individual’s identity in a mob. Personally, I think this is a good thing, especially considering the circumstances and possible outcomes. Or else the same majority of our masses would have continued to glorify the Gandhi-imaged Congress as long as the ‘adopted Gandhi-surname’ family lived!
Maybe, right from the start, this is what was intended - Irreparable damage to the Congress.
I seem to take so much pleasure in writing ill of this political outfit that I think I will keep up a chain of posts regarding the Congress’s ugly under-belly.
Totally true! But as you have mentioned in between its not only Congress but all political parties that are being targeted :)
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