Hopeless politicos

When the toothless politicians inexorably act to make the nation soft (and porous) to swallow it easily, the nation bleeds. In the current spate of terror attacks on the sovereignty of India, politicos have played blame the opposition game profusely. While the NSG operation was in progress, Mr L.K. Adwani couldn’t stop himself from bashing on opposition and called it a system failure. At the same time Mr Modi spoke utter non-sense and announced some packages for martyrs, which fortunately was thrown back at his face by the proud families. BJP leaders firstly failed to understand the gravity of the situation and could not help themselves from showing their animal upbringing by speaking rubbish. Secondly, they forgot, thanks to their volatile memory, that there were much severe attacks on India during BJP rule, namely - Parliament attack, Kargil war, Attack on Akshardham temple and some here and there bomb blasts. They also forgot that BJP is the sole responsible party who sought vote in the name of 'Ram Mandir' and spread the contagion of riots in the entire world. Further what Mr L. K. Adwani, and surprisingly our news hungry media, has also forgotten that he was in the first few to have been booked under Hawala. On what merits did he qualify for the prime ministerial candidature is beyond my ken. MNS, the great Marathi savior party, too was not away from playing politics. They spread the SMS, apart from the ritual posters all politicos pasted all over Mumbai, that Marathi officers gave their lives fighting terrorists. What they must understand that not all the naval commandos and not all the NSG commandos were Marathi. In such a serious state, Shiv Sena cheif says that he will not allow Pakistan team to play in Maharashtra; when will he (they) learn that it is about country, not about a particular state. Those who support either Shiv Sena or MNS must reevaluate first on the basis of their silence and then on their funny remarks. Does Mumbai really need a leader who didn't dare to address the state? Does Mumbai really need a leader who deserted them when they needed him the most? Does Mumbai need a leader who did not come forward to console and encourage his citizen? At least in such a situation, when the whole country stood united, MNS, Shiv Sena, BJP and Congress should have stayed in their lairs.

In a country, where blood comes cheap, where neighbors uncork champagne when we perish, where media is continuously showing the story of horror and using martyrs as their advertisement bait (being really insensitive to their families), where common men have realized a new pastime of bashing on politicians, where the politicos don't do anything but condemn the attacks, where so called public servants started cashing on the opportunity even before the trauma was over, where a chief minister of a state says, "the terrorists planned 5000 killings but we made them succumbed to kill only 200" and "we had some information but not the specific ones" (the most absurd statement I have ever heard, as if terrorists are obligated to inform everything before arriving), where a home minister of a state writes his own political obituary by saying, "such small accidents do happen", and where the other CM says, "not even a dog will visit Sandeep Unnikrishanan's house", and where they still roam with tight security (I really mourn on parliament attack failure), while common man is fighting for survival, I feel not to waste my precious moments thinking and writing about politic mistakes of our citizen anymore.

Mr Raj

We know him now; thanks to his inflammatory speeches, acting as fuel to the motor working against the concept 'India united'. We knew him earlier too, when he himself could not stay united with his family. It was alleged that his involvement in murder of 'Ramesh Kinni' led to such a decision. However, this does not sound logical. How can there be a politician (who he is not yet) without red hands. Anyway sometimes the thought of someone taking initiative to rebuild Maharashtra and unite Marathi Manoos bothers me. Not because that the cause it not good, to me the thought is supreme, but because it is perpetrated in the pretext of politicians vested interests . One must think of protecting and rebuilding his persons, but the cost associated and the means to achieve the end goal must be fair. Raj will enjoy congress's imputiny as long as he plays its puppet and as long as he is against Shiv Sena (The aim is actually to divide Marathi Manoos between Congress and BJP). For the congress it is not new; they have been raising such people from time to time. Bhinderwalan, Mr. Raj are just a few examples of Congress's politics.

His partners in crime have been singing victory songs for their continual assaults on Indian constitution. Quite recently, they sang a new song as Maharashtra government is asking for 80% reservation for local people in the industries in Maharashtra. Such a ordinance, if passed, will violate the fundamental rights of Indian citizens to stay anywhere in the country and practice the vocation they want. Well it is not new for MNS to rejoice when laws are broken. Today, he is one of those who are acting profusely to undo the efforts of the great 'Iron man', sardar vallabh bhai paten. He (Iron man) was instrumental in getting 600 princely states into one dominion named India. Raj and his champions are hell bent to divide India in the lines of states of origin.

Maharashtra, if we look into the history, was not confined to the boundaries we see today. Its reach was till Jhansi and its people actively fought the English from Kanpur. Maharashtra is an integral part of India and any Indian should be treated there equally as long as he is contributing to the nation. However, it seems that Raj Thackeray, either doesn't have the political finesse or is incompetent to deal with issues that are much more serious issues. At least I don't believe that Marathis are incompetent in any manner. Why do they need protection from 'South Indians' (1960s), from 'Muslims' (1970s), Gujratis and now from North Indians. For his information, most of the industries are owned by non marathi people. The best example is Bhojpuri movies industry. It generates jobs for more than 200 marathi people in Mumbai and earns around Rs 50 crore for Maharashtra government. What if they plan a shift to somewhere else. All the big guns, such as Tata, Reliance and many more are from non-maharashtra orgin. Today Gujrat is prospering leaps and bounds and Modi government is more than stable. MNS's such efforts will help Modi, and then Gujrat, gain an edge over Maharashtra. Perhaps Mr Raj hasn't thought about insidious effects of his acts.

If he se so serious, he must think about the farmers committing suicide in Maharashtra. If he is so serious, he must think about terrorsims in Maharashtra, and in whole India for that matter. But he cannot think beyond casting aspersions on Amitabh Bachchan (who actively helped Indian film industry survive in 1970 when it was seeing new grounds by each movie they produced) and on north indians. If he is so seirous, he must think about Maharashtra ad a whole not Mumbai alone. He asked what has Amitabh Bachchan done for Maharashtra, but I ask what has he done for Maharashtra economy instead of asking his goons to destroy public property, which in fact will be ressurrected by Marashatra's tax payers money. He chose easy targets, as opposed to those chosen by Shiva ji Maharaj, whom he worships. In the last, if he is so serious, he must resort to fair means for his people. MNS workers beat up innocent students, and actually killed one, on the false belief, spread by the man himself, that railway recruitment advertiesements were not published in Marathi news papers. However, when it was proved otherwise, he shifted his stands and argued on the prominency of the advertiesments. To my knowledge, naked hurried run doesn't appeal to voters. They need an issue, he created one and media helped him.

But when a state sponsors terrorism, the country bleeds. All the laws broken, his arrests are made to popularize him. Poor common people cannot see that the battle over marathi manoos is actually a battle between two cousins, working to cut other's vote bank. The calculation is simple enough; the more MNS does pro-marathi fights, the more famous it becomes. In such conditions, Shiv Sena loses marathi votes, however if it tries to do the same and act againt north-indians, it loses its non-marathi votes, hence 15-18 assembly seats.

With the conscience of most of the politicians dead in this age of power, fame and wealth, it will indeed be heartening to see, if this letter touches your conscience somewhat and renders an apology from you, for your unpardonable divisive act targeted at our secular nation, India.