Blind voters are essential for BJP-Congress survival

Governments have never tried to repair and reform their delivery system and update people

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Rakesh Manchanda | January 5, 2012



Parliamentary democracy was weakened decades ago when the government promoted the untested idea that if we privatise and sell the public assets, we can control corruption. Result? One percent corporate-driven politicians became more rich and more powerful. People to parliament engagement was kept weak with little voter awareness. Governments never tried to repair and reform their own delivery system and update people. The Jan Lokpal process is a part of this competitive reform which can help arrest corruption. The Lokpal bill was deliberately put to sleep in the Rajya Sabha, with both the Congress and the BJP pretending to be indulging in fair play.

Today the Congress in the media is provoking and demanding Team Anna to reply as to why a corrupt and sacked BSP minister, Babu Singh Kushwaha, is being accepted in BJP preparing for UP elections. The timing of CBI's Monday-Tuesday raids on this ex-minister of UP also speaks volumes. It is clear that both BJP and the Congress, like small regional parties, are not ready to fight corruption but shall use corruption to gain more power. Blind supporters and voters are essential for both the Congress and BJP. Let us see how.

Let us rewind our memory back to three years, when the UPA government's survival was challenged on the floor of parliament by the left. The Congress in minority was going overboard by educating public as to how the US nuclear deal was in favour of India and against Jehadi terrorism after 9/11. BJP was never seen educating people as to why they were against the nuclear deal. A no-confidence motion brought by 59 communist parliamentarians and their supporters was voted out and failed. After three years this old shameful event of lawmakers' corruption revolves around 'Votes for Notes'. The corporate nexus behind Amar Singh could have been easily exposed by tracing bank trail from where bundles of notes were withdrawn. For more then three years no action was seen against this corruption. An FIR was lodged only recently. Police were then forced to act by a court order and media pressure and few politicians and MPs were jailed. The nuclear deal had gone in favor of the US. If 19 MPs of NDA had not crossed over, the n-deal would have failed. The communists, although in minority, tried to build a people pressure by some education in public but BJP, the prime opposition party, did nothing to build people's awareness.
 
BJP in parliament said again and again they were against the US nuclear deal but actually they never wanted to oppose this deal and wanted to be in good books of America. BJP only wanted to grab power and claim that they created this 'bribe' in the string operation. BJP is trying now after three years to convince people that instead of bribe takers their two MPs jailed were the chosen whistle blowers. Unlike Anna Team, BJP is still not honest. BJP leaders are not at all trying to educate people as to how the US nuclear deal today and in the past was against Indian people and their independence. BJP leaders had lot of time like Anna Team to corner police and their political masters (Congress) with or without roses and get-well-soon cards.
 
BJP declared Advani's yatra against corruption but fails to explain the party's old opportunist stand on the US nuclear deal. Advani's yatra failed to explain to people as to why they kept their Lokpal menu blank for several years and then were waiting for Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare to outsource fight against corruption. This shows the weak BJP is waiting for someone to bring a change and finally court judgement forced leadership/CM change in Karnataka.

Advani now after three years is adding masala and emotions in this old and outdated win-lose video game in parliament by declaring that he masterminded this sting operation of Bribe and money display in parliament to expose corruption wherein the actual business deal is different. The US nuclear deal and hidden corporate lobby behind Amar Singh appear to 'bring the win' and India's shameful sell out to the US three years ago in parliament. People of India as losers were reduced as blind followers not fit enough to be informed as to why cheap power cannot be generated say by river water sharing instead of the Nuclear deal.

The Congress-BJP strength combine are hidden match fixers and collaborators as seen in the past 43 years. Match fixers who demand blind voters are worst then those who fail to deliver. Both are doubtful and weak people educators and shall play arithmetic of power with no action against corruption. Nature of Indian politics and Anna Hazaare's unfinished movement against corruption demands new leaders and new vision for new young India.

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