What will happen to Kezriwal and Anti corruption movement?

Close to 2 years back I have written about Anna Hazare and Arvind Kezriwal in my blog, the only difference is now we have a lot of clarity on what they could not achieve and where they have gone wrong (of course most of it could be mere perceptions).Couple of hours back I was casually reading on Quora, A question about Aam Admi Party supporters caught my attention. This person who posted the question seems to have vexed up with the supporters of Kezriwal and APP even after it's debacle in elections and sensation about Kezriwal's arres and resignations of Shazia, capt.Gopinath. I think his frustration is fair but at the same time "Supporters" have no choice to an extent, leaders can resign and join other parties but a once supporter will always be considered to be a supporters even  if he/she does not believe in AK/AAP anymore.

So who to blame? Supporters or the party & Leadership?

First of all, I don't think AK has clarity on what he wants to achieve with his party which in way promotes the culture of taking decisions suddenly aiming short term gains - which will be frustrating for people around him. 

Second, Leaders who joined AK/AAP were in a hurry to support him before even understating the philosophy of the party - obviously their loyalties will disappear in a quick time.

Third, the way Aam Admi party is being run sometimes it looks like an even management company who plans and executes “Dharnas”. Criticism by Capt.Gopinath or by Shazia or not far from truth for obvious reasons. Absence of Democracy" in AAP is quite natural for the reason that as a country we are extremely far from this word internal democracy within our political parties, moreover it is very unlikely to happen to AAP with the stance they take on few issues like Kashmir, Khap etc. It will be pretty much driven by AK and few more - I don’t think Shazia is new to this, and just realized there is "no democracy in the party" .

Leadership is the problem for AAP, they seems to have come to a conclusion that questioning is far more comfortable than answering. So for now AAP is an unguided missile.

United by cause, divided by agenda. What will Anna, Kiran Bedi and others do?

The whole nation knows the fact that Anna Hazare and Kiran Bedi supported Narendra Modi, now that he is the prime minister, can they influence Modi to get the list of black money holders in swiss bank? If they ask will BJP will act on it? These are the biggest questions bothering most of the honest supporters of Anti-corruption movement.

Now that Kiran Bedi’s name is taking rounds in the media for Delhi CM post, will she be able to put pressure on Modi’s government? Or will she just keep quite? I can’t stop being cynical now, has she done all this just to grab nation’s attention so that she could qualify for the top post in Delhi? The much larger question is whether this whole “Anti-corruption movement” is part of the long-term pre-election strategy of BJP?

Too many questions! They all arise because of we can establish a relation and trend between the major players in Anti -corruption movement : Ram Jethmalani is fighting a case I Supreme court to get the black money back, Ram Dev Baba has been giving lectures on the same, we know about Kiran Bedi and Anna Hazare already. But not even once these guys tried to come together and sorted out a plan as to how they will pressurize the government to have this major task completed. Now my questions make sense?

For now AAP is an unguided missile and Kiran Bedi, well should we say future CM and Anna Hazare the Guru of 2 chief ministers, possibly the only honest man left?

We must invent a profitable business than "Politics" to save India

While we were in School and college we've read about wars for religion, for ownership on a place  but when we look at them now carefully it boils down to the fact that everything happened because of a business called "politics". In this century  this evolved as most profitable business for all crooked,cunning animals in human skin.Take for example America's war on Iraq  to today Telagana issue in Andhrapradesh- the entire media said america attacked Iraq for oil, the whole world believed it and whispered "How mean America is". I wonder if that is the truth all we are saying is that american politicians are so committed and biased towards Americans well being.Which is not true, all they are worried about votes, power so that they can protect their vested interests, enjoy their lives at tax payer's money and make more money.It is really surprising that we all force ourselves to believe that politicians are standing for a cause, they are protecting national interest.Get the most powerful telescope in the world and try to search for a leader like Abraham  Lincoln or Subhash Chandra Bose  -  for your disappointment you won't find more leaders.

Just have a look at Telangana Issue - Governments have been cooking it for over 5 decades now at the cost of utmost discomfort to people,great loss to both the regions in Andhraparesh and suddenly when a decision has been taken politicians from both the sides start playing the role of saviors, comes on to the streets to save interests of their regions,fight for their region's share in water,irrigation projects, revenue.Every day and night you keep reading statements made by politicians on how they want to protect people of their regions, and the way they protect people is by calling for a strike - No schools for children,no government office will be open,all the public services are halt and no cost effective transport system will function during strike.All this happens under the slogan called public interest.Well the question we need to ask here is "where have you been" all these years when I could not get drinking water everyday, when I have been denied a government service which is my fundamental right, when farmers are committing suicides? Politicians wont be there for the obvious reason that there is "no money" they can make out of these.But when they fight for Irrigation projects, Roads,Airports there is huge amount of money in each of those.If these kind of projects wont get started  they cant make money - so they fight for money - sorry in their language "for people".

Why it has become a business?

It is very simple: most of the political leaders today would have started their careers as an entry level volunteer in a particular party. From that stage to now they would have spent at least 20 years of time, during this period  for a serious political leader there wont be any time left to take up any other occupation to earn money, so from where they should get money? how should  they live? how should they support their families ?The nominal pay for leaders at panchayath, Mandal and district level wont be sufficient to survive by maintaining stature in political circles.So all the investment one made in the form of time,physical and mental hard work over those 2 decades will give him  an opportunity to convert that investment made in to  money once h wins an election.Hence politicians create divisions,movements,fights and chaos to make more and more money and to get much more powerful.

There are 3 simple  options here to be clean

1) Do not get in to politics to earn livelihood : Fortunately or unfortunately in India it is always believed that politics are for unselfish public service, so only people who does not want to make money using politics are welcome here, if you want to make money choose another career, why come in to politics to suffer and to be called corrupted - please don't " if you want to make money, you are disqualified". You can not buy a BMW, or a Villa neither you can send your children abroad for education with the honorary expenses paid by the government. Please be reminded that "Politics are  only for people who wants to remain poor in the process of  making public  rich", yeah true politicians also public they also vote so there is not really a great deal of  wrong in they becoming rich - alas this cant stop corruption

2) Earn money then enter politics : This is a good option, make enough money save it and enter politics.I think most of today's politicians are doing this - just that their habit of earning money does not die easily, so they continue the same even after entering in to politics -Pccch  can't help 

3) There is something called community service while you are working as a teacher,engineer,Lawyer or a business man  you could do service to gain support from public - if you are genuinely helping public you don't have to spend money to win elections. When was the last time a public servant was elected without spending money in elections? how many of our current MLA's or MP's have this kind of background? not many of them i don't think this model will work for India. Leave this too.

Actually i cant really think of any good option - the best solution for this would be we discovering a better business which is more profitable than Politics, so that all crooked will go there  and at least there will some space for good people in politics. Anyone who discovers this kind of business should be given a Nobel prize.

Hypocrites have no right to ask for a clean system

I have asked myself so many times before writing this, as in if I have moral right to make a statement like that, the answer was yes predominantly, hence here you go.

Why am I writing this?

After Supreme court gave the verdict barring individuals from contesting elections if they are jailed, i started thinking about how much good/bad this can do for Indian democracy, i am elated with the verdict because of the reason that it will  stop at least a few Mughals of corruption and criminals. But in the  the process of thinking the sociological aspect from where corruption/crime draws its first living cell amused me.I would like to pen it here and leave it for your good senses to say right or wrong but after dealing with the flip side of the decision.

It is a great decision, but we all know our respected politicians are extremely efficient in abusing power and satisfy their vengeance against rivals. We have seen in the past an old man got arrested in the midnight, similar things happened in Andhra Pradesh too. So if the current party in power is hopeless and has not done anything for the people and on the verge of losing in next elections, all they will do is - use their power and get opposition leaders behind the bars under a serious offence. Hence this needs to be discussed in wider forums and needs to be made robust in a way it is not abused.

Now going back to my statement:

How many acts/verdicts like these will bring in change? How may policemen we think we need to clean up the system?

Have a look at the report of transparency international, none of the so called powerful nations with hi-tech police system, judicial mechanism are not featuring in to 15, for more details see here

Rank	Country	Score	Surveys Used	CI: Lower	CI: Upper
1	Denmark	90	7	87	93
1	Finland	90	7	85	95
1	New Zealand	90	7	87	94
4	Sweden	88	7	85	91
5	Singapore	87	9	83	90
6	Switzerland	86	6	81	90
7	Australia	85	8	83	86
7	Norway	85	7	82	87
9	Canada	84	7	80	87
9	Netherlands	84	7	81	88
11	Iceland	82	6	75	89
12	Luxembourg	80	6	75	85
13	Germany	79	8	75	83
14	Hong Kong	77	8	74	80
15	Barbados	76	3	65	87

You can’t bring in positive change even if you get an act every minute, even if we employ police double of our population, change will come only through large scale social reforms and change will come only through cleaning the system from the roots. When I say this I am not referring to large scale movements like Anna Hazare is doing because of the reason that though I believe Anna Hazare I don’t trust those thousands of people gathering and chanting for him. I am not being cynical here, let me tell you my personal experience, While I was in college we started a youth association our aim was to conduct programs to spread the spirit of National unity, encourage students and community service. We ran this successfully for a period of 3 years till time of general elections, during elections time number political parties approached us to support them and canvas for them by offering gifts and stuff like that – because you know we all had voting right and we were a large group of educated youth, being the president it was my strict decision that we won’t accept anything from anybody and do not support anybody. But after few days I got to know that my friends have taken a cricket kit, that’s all I quit. The Irony the same group of people who sold their votes for a cricket kit and continue to do so started postings on Facebook supporting Anna Hazare recently. The whole mechanism is working like this, people think that it is ok if I take something from politicians but they should serve us with honesty. If we can’t wither away this hypocrisy, we will remain nothing but a bunch of hypocrites craving for fair society. The whole India need to ask the following very simple questions before asking for a clean system

a)      If you are demanding for dowry – do you have the right to ask for a fair society, isn’t this system of dowry causing deaths of lakhs of women across country – suicides or killed by in-laws/husband, isn’t it one of the key reason why crime rate in India is going up?

b)      How many of us like having a baby girl? or wish to kill her in the womb itself? And bribe doctors to do that? Doctors are coming to us to do this, we are going to them. Isn’t it the most criminal activity manifestation in a different way?

c)      If I am luring an official with money for a work I am not supposed get or for a job for which I am not eligible for– do I have the right to ask for a clean system?

d)      How many of us got our driving licenses by throwing bribes? Why do we have given it? Because we cannot pass the test, because we do not quite know how to drive

e)      Apart from voting (40% of them won’t even do this) what is my contribution to the village/city/colony I am living in?

f)       How many of us are evading taxes?

g)      How many of the politically active youth are hiding behind the ideology of HINDU,MUSLIM,COMMUNIST etc though you know it is not going to work out , it is the correct way – just to achieve your personal ambitions, breaking rules, setting buses on fire, conspiring murders/kidnaps

h)      How many of us vote to XYZ because he/she belongs to particular caste?

It is we who made it look ugly, it is we who created this suffocation, and it is definitely we who invited this violence. It does not make sense when you are shaking the foundations and asking for strong building. If you are not fair, you have not right to ask for being treated fairly

All of them who crossed the age of 16 are the children of this so called corrupted ill society. It is not wise to have any hope on that generation. Let us focus on children under 15 years,, let them learn good things at school, let us give them an opportunity to strengthen their wings, let us give them confidence to live on their own, let us teach to respect others, let us teach them good and bad – because we know the bad very well, we have been seeing this all through our lives, we contributed to it.

Let us allow children to born whether boy or a girl. Let them grow hearing you don’t have to cheat anyone to become strong, you  don’t have bribe anyone to get what you are eligible for, that you don’t live long enough hence it is not worth enough to commit crimes for living, Beg don’t steal, borrow don’t threaten.