A democracy where the government is by the
people, for the people and of the people, but is this visible or just an
illusion.? Democracy is no more than a zoot suit today, which has been taken
over by Armani or Gucci i.e. Anna and Ramdev of today's time. We hardly have any
idea today of what democracy is as I already said it's just an illusion for us."
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today" (Mahatma Gandhi).
We are living in a state where poverty,
hunger, illiteracy, have been prominent. A state which has seen the most
bloodiest riots, which came from nowhere to 'somewhere'. What we are waiting
for is a change, but after all we are Indians, "why change", hence
things continue to be the same.
India nowhere falls within the definition of
democracy given by Abraham Lincoln, it has totally zagged away from it, the
reason being that our so called democratic country is no more for its citizens.
We no more can feel the zing of democracy but why.? Is democracy only limited
to stand in some corner of the street and relax yourself?
We are happy just by casting our votes, and we
are happy when government changes, but we forget that after all, all of them are
a chip of the same old block, all are top guns in the field of corruption.
Statements are many but the fact is one, and
the most assertive fact is that, it is true that we can remove the rotten stem
of corruption but not the corruption which is at the grass root level.
Once considered as the brainchild of thought,
knowledge, and destined to be a great country, India's tryst and destiny have
met with paralysis. The toothsome fact of being a democratic country has been
shattered, as now we can see the rise of rebellion into the core structure of
our motherland. After all that we faced, 2g , CWG, 'ye g', 'wo g' and many such
'G', what further can we expect from our so called democratic nation.? No
sooner it was over we came across Adarsh scam, all these with a combined force
set ablaze our country on fire, the fire of corruption and the fire spread and
engulfed the entire nation State by State. The bottom line, if the political
parties are not looking after us rather being indulged in their own hereditary
activities. The opposition being no less, boycotting every parliamentary session,
making a choice and not letting the parliament work, collecting some cheap
brownies from the national disaster and playing state wise politics.
Then came so called "saviors" who
took the risk of taking up the cudgel
and purging the motherland from every morsel of corruption, and in doing so
they very much killed the democracy to the fullest.
The call of civil society
by team Anna, the movement taken out at Jantar Mantar, and forcing the
government to go down on knees and asking them to surrender to their demands
(instead they wanted them to surrender democracy and a new form of government
would have been brought in, "civil society government.). Violating the due process to
achieve a goal — and this is admittedly a noble goal — is adding to the
problem. It sows the seeds of anarchy. This is a trial by the media and trial
by a kangaroo court. Who are Anna Hazare or his followers to decide what should
or should not be included in the Lokpal Bill. Leave it to Parliament. That's
what you elected them for.
When
Anna phenomena ka 'zamana' was 'diwana' someone really felt insecured, this
gave rise to sleeping opportunism in a yoga guru named 'Ramdev' followed by a
'Baba'.
Baba ji rather went a step ahead of Anna in
the fight for saving our motherland from the corruption which is similar to the
ever widening mouth of 'sursa'. He tried everything from drama to melodrama and
even showed some 'lila' at Ramlila ground. The yoga master was even arrested by
Delhi police when he tried escaping from there as a mistress (after all
'democracy'). This man owns a property of 1100 crores and he claims to give yoga
lessons for free. How can a riff raff person like Yadav ji of 90s become 1100 crores
owner Baba Ramdev in 2013. Strange.!
Statements were made by the government that
let the yogic to yoga rather than teaching the government a lesson, but sir,
you should know that this is democracy if we are not allowed to do whatever we
want we will go on a "fast until death" whenever we want. Let us
unite some people go out in streets shout bad slogans and get whatever we want.
Take out processions light up candles mess out streets disrespect our national
flag in various ways during the protest and demand boldly as we are living in a
democratic state.
We only see such shady figures coming up, who
do not even respect our constitution , nor do they know the word democracy (of
which they have misused the most) how can such a person be a watchdog of our
democratic nation.?
Now the question arises is that , where is
democracy.? 64 years of independence and still we see a village in 24 Parganas
(West Bengal) starving for two times meal, still we see child marriage in
sub-urban parts of Jaipur, we feel proud calling our self a male chauvinist,
people still die of hunger, still farmers commit suicide, still there are no
job opportunities, girls are still being raped openly, on protesting you are
being branded as a Communist, miseries are being the prime politicizing issues
in today's world, people die and our Netaas play vote bank politics, electricity
have not yet reached most remote parts of India, hunger strikes is
the new mode of gaining attention, anti- religious comments are ignored when
made by political leaders but a genuine question asked by a student (Under her
right to freedom of expression) ends her up in jail,....... and the list is never
ending.
What is going around in our country?, what are
the measures taken?, where is our money going? , where is transparency? Is
India one or twenty six? Where is the accountability of the government
officials? Is expressing yourself freely a crime? Where are our Constitutional
rights? And finally where is democracy.?
Can we have an answer, or would I be thrown
behind bars?
To conclude this, I would just like to mention
a famous quote by Mahatma Gandhi:
""Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.". Strange but True.
ASHUTOSH UPADHYAYA (Editor)
Literary Society (The Bohemians)
